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Thomas Paine

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Tuesday, July 17, 2012

17 July - RSS SnapShot! Pt III

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Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Nationalism versus capitalism in USA: guess wh ...
    Lawrence Davidson considers the essence of capitalism and how its corollary in the age of the free market - outsourcing of production to countries with cheap labour, no or weak trade unions and minimal regulation - is impoverishing Americans who nonetheless continue to believe that the system co ...
  • Storming the Bastille in Syria
    Henry Lowi calls on progressives with a conscience to declare their solidarity with the oppressed people of Syria, to make every effort "to reach out to the pro-democracy grassroots organizations" there and to "support and strengthen the hand of the pro-democracy and working class currents in th ...
  • Accusations of Jewish self-hatred and anti-Sem ...
    Richard Forer explains why so many Jews support Israel's blatant injustice towards the Palestinians, arguing that an honest self-examination by Israel's Jewish supporters of the premises behind their demonization of Israel's critics, and debunking the idealistic false image of Israel that they s ...
  • Two faces of Israel: honest terrorist and corr ...
    Uri Avnery views two former Israeli prime ministers, Yitzhak Shamir, the recently-deceased terrorist leader, and Ehud Olmert, architect of the 2006 Lebanon war and the 2008/09 Gaza massacre, noting that whereas Shamir, "the dead honest fanatic, has many followers" Olmert, "the living corrupt pra ...
  • Poisoning Arafat: Ariel Sharon and the Jewish ...
    Uri Avnery recalls Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's journey from national liberation fighter to peace warrior and argues that Arafat's quest for peace, which if successful would have posed a mortal danger to the Jewish settlements, is what led the Israelis to poison him.

Amazon Rainforest

  • Peru police clashes with illegal gold miners: ...
    Thousands of illegal gold miners battled police for control of a regional capital in the Amazon basin on Wednesday and at least three people were killed by gunfire.  Outnumbered riot police fired tear gas against miners who wielded clubs and rocks and tried to seize strategic facilities in Puert ...
  • Brazil to Dilma: Fulfill campaign promise!
      The Forest Code is dwindling, and with it the Brazilian forests. Soon to be voted in the House, the text that distorts the country’s main environmental law was the target of a demonstration today in Brasilia, which brought together social movements and environmental groups, asking the Pr ...
  • European energy corporation plans to flood Rai ...
    Spanish energy cooperation Endesa (subsidiary enterprise of the Italian Enel cooperation) is builiding a giant hydro-electric power plant next to the River Magdalena, Colombia- The construction work has started today- the protest camps of the local farmers and fishermen have been evacuated by fo ...
  • Plastic eating Fungi discovered in Amazon Rain ...
    The group of students, part of Yale’s annual Rainforest Expedition and Laboratory with molecular biochemistry professor Scott Strobel, ventured to the jungles of Ecuador. The mission was to allow “students to experience the scientific inquiry process in a comprehensive and creative way.&#8 ...
  • Justice for 8year girl burned alive by loggers ...
    Loggers in Brazil captured an eight-year-old girl from one of the Amazon’s last uncontacted tribes and burned her alive as part of a ‘campaign’ to force the indigenous population from its land! Sign Petition and share: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/813/288/541/ The ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

Afro Spear

Expose the BNP

  • Expose the BNP: activists’ meeting
    Over the summer we have seen the extreme right enter parliament in Sweden and racist deportations of Roma people from France. Here at home the EDL have continued to target cities with Muslim communities, while the police are bringing trumped-up charges against anti-fascists. November 6 sees a na ...
  • Rotherham fascist leads secret double life
    A BNP activist is living a secret double life, desperate to prevent his employers from finding out about his extremist views – despite having stood as a candidate in last month’s election. Tom Holmes (25) received 715 votes in the recent elections for Rotherham Council but has managed to keep hi ...
  • Nick Griffin humiliated in Barking defeat
    The British National Party have suffered a humiliating defeat in the general election when Nick Griffin failed to gain a Westminster seat for the East London ward of Barking. Labour MP Margaret Hodge secured the seat with a 16,000 majority, with Griffin trailing third after the Conservative cand ...
  • Ten questions that expose Nick Griffin
    On the day that the BNP launches its election manifesto, Expose the BNP has researched 10 questions for journalists to put to the BNP leader, the answers to which reveal him to be a deeply racist, anti-Semitic Holocaust denier who boasts about his criminal past. 1. In which year did you stop den ...
  • Workshy Griffin left his parents penniless
    On yesterday’s Today programme, BNP leader Nick Griffin told the Radio Four audience that “Liberal economics … have utterly bankrupted this country.” The truth is that Nick Griffin was himself declared bankrupt in 1991. Over several years thereafter he destroyed his parents’ finances as we ...

Ode Magazine

  • Sonic boon
    A search for the healing power of sound I’m lying in A bed that’s as hard as nails with a series of strings along the sides and two gongs above my head. It’s known as a gong bath, and Gwen de Jong, a practitioner of sound healing at Spirit Connection in Amsterdam ...
  • The secret’s in the sauce
    What my father’s recipe for pasta marinara says about the future of capitalism As the daughter of a Neapolitan, I grew up eating pasta with marinara sauce. My father didn’t always make it from scratch, but he did so often enough for me to follow his recipe through memories. Fr ...
  • Clean water, clean energy
    In the prosperous West, we generally only get worked up about clean water and electricity when the bill arrives in the mail, and we discover that once again, we’ve been showering too long and leaving the lights on too often. But in many parts of the world, people can only dream ...
  • Blocking CO2 to beat malaria
    Mosquitoes are so difficult to elude because they pursue us via the CO2 exhaled in our breath. That’s annoying when we’re relaxing outside on a summer evening, but it’s devastating for the 200 to 300 million people who contract malaria annually. More than 1 millio ...
  • A winter’s tale
    Celebrating the return of the bald eagle In the Iowa winter, as the poet Robert Hass wrote, “a farmer’s dreams are narrow,” and autumn can inspire me with a kind of dread as I work in the garden that will soon be buried under snow. But this coming winter, as the ...

OpEd News

  • Nationalism vs. Capitalism: Guess Which One Wins?
    The ideals of capitalism, so ardently believed in, turn out to be false except for (as the current saying goes) the fortunate 1%. And those of nationalism? They too are drilled into our heads from childhood. But, alas, they cannot substitute for one's supper.
  • What Protestants Could Learn from Ron Paul
    If historians 100 years from now seek to explain how a great power committed seemingly intentional national suicide, they will have to look no further than the voting record of the U.S. Congress. The same historians may also wonder, where were the churches while the United States government was ...
  • This Global Financial Fraud and its Gatekeepers
    Whatever motivated Geithner's silence, or that of the "government official" in the emails to Barclays, this much is obvious: the mainstream media need to drop their narratives of "Gosh, another oversight". The financial sector's corruption must be recognized as systemic.
  • Romney, Perfect Foil for A Republicrat Incumbent?
    Considering how vulnerable Romney appears, already badly tainted by his own signature prowess, the Bain Miracle, why are polls neck and neck? How can a fake, though ideal Republican nominee match up against a likeable, if badly flawed incumbent? Or is it to be a battle over the lesser of two we ...
  • Global instability, feedback, and your survival
    Global systems rely on feedback in order to remain in balance. Two resources explore what this means for the global economy and what you can do about it for yourself and your community.

Switchboard

  • Sue and settle legislation: a cure in search o ...
    Ann Alexander, Senior Attorney, Chicago Certain segments of Congress of late have built their careers on loudly decrying government waste, endless bureaucratic delay, disregard of the law by public officials, and excessive litigation.  Their so ...
  • NRDC in the News 7/16: Beach report best five ...
    NRDC News, NRDC News Team, NRDC Offices Worldwide Oprah.com’s “LifeLift” blog featured NRDC’s annual beach report,“Testing the Waters,” highlighting the dozen beaches that received a 5-star rating for good water q ...
  • India Environmental News Compilation, July 2nd ...
    Amrita Batra, Program Assistant, India Initiative and Food and Agriculture, San Francisco Energy A Tool that Educates Consumers on Energy Efficiency “The Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE), which provides the legal framework for the Union Pow ...
  • Take Local Opposition National By Saying No to ...
    Joel Reynolds, Director of NRDC's Urban Program, the Marine Mammal Protection and So. California Ecosystem projects, Santa Monica, CA In May, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released a draft scientific assessment of the potential impacts of ...
  • New NRDC fact sheet documents how fracking can ...
    Amy Mall, Senior Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C. A new NRDC fact sheet is now available on the NRDC website. Entitled: "Hydraulic Fracturing Can Potentially Contaminate Drinking Water Sources," the concise fact sheet explains the various ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Oh Alaska
    Well, I guess this could have the silver lining of getting Noon to the Lower 48 more frequently: Cutting Alaska’s health care costs by sending employees out of state for cheaper treatment might work to trim budgets, but even so it may not be in the state’s best interest, say some who would have ...
  • Kitty Wells, RIP
    Well this sucks. God may not have made honky tonk angels, but there’s a honky tonk angel gone to meet God* *or whatnot
  • Is it even possible to have this conversation ...
    … without proving Kathleen wrong? Bloggers who have been at it for a while have noted a recent decline in commenting, and while that decline may have begun with the popularity of RSS feeds (which abstract the content of blog posts from their web presences, encouraging reading without inter ...
  • Syrian Civil War
    The International Committee of the Red Cross has determined that the Syrian Civil War is a internal war, which has a variety of implications for military targeting and legal responsibility. Charli has some initial thoughts on what this means.  Robert Chesney has this on regime targeting: The Syr ...
  • Foreign Entanglements: Forget it, Jake. It&#8 ...
    On the latest Foreign Entanglements, Chris Van Avery and I talk a bit about the South China Sea: There’s also some F-35 and AirSea Battle stuff in there.

Desert Research Institute

  • Hallar Named Regents' Rising Researcher
    The Nevada System of Higher Education Board of Regents presented Gannet Hallar, Ph.D. of the Desert Research Institute (DRI) with the 2012 Rising Researcher Award in acknowledgment of her contributions to the field of atmospheric science and her potential for future accomplishments.  
  • DRI scientists conduct climate change research ...
    Dr. Eric Wilcox and graduate student Nic Beres research pollution’s effects on clouds in the island nation most threatened by climate change.
  • Governor praises DRI’s METRIC program
    Speaking at an important state-wide water summit in March, Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval lauded DRI’s METRIC program calling its Landsat satellite technology an important tool in monitoring water usage.
  • Governor praises DRI’s METRIC program
    Speaking at an important state-wide water summit in March, Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval lauded DRI’s METRIC program calling its Landsat satellite technology an important tool in monitoring water usage.
  • DRI's Net Zero Building Honored by USGBC and ...
    The Desert Research Institute’s Net Zero Building was honored by the United States Green Building Council (USGBC) and Senator Harry Reid at the USGBC Northern Nevada Chapter luncheon for its goals and plans to create an independently sustainable structure.

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • Record donation will finance minority scholars ...
    Emory University School of Law this month received its largest donation to date. Alumus Robert Henrikson, former president and chief executive officer of MetLife Inc., and his wife, Mary, pledged $2.5 million for minority student scholarships and other financial aid programs.
  • First Circuit affirms Big Dig fraud sentences ...
    The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit has upheld sentences involving no prison for two men convicted of fraud in Boston's Big Dig project, despite a Federal Sentencing Guidelines range starting at more than seven years in prison.
  • Ninth Circuit rejects Mini-Wheats settlement o ...
    A federal appeals court has rejected a class action settlement over alleged false advertising of a breakfast cereal, ruling that a plan to contribute some of the payout to charity bore no relation to the case and that the plaintiffs attorneys' fee award was excessively generous.
  • The 2012 APPELLATE HOT LIST
    We asked our readers to nominate firms with at least one significant appellate win between May 2011 and May 2012 and that had an impressive track record overall. We supplemented the results with our own research to arrive at the list of 16 firms you'll find here.
  • THE CONNECTED LAWYER: How to get hit by lightning
    Bringing in big deals, new litigation or the highly coveted anchor client is kind of like being struck by lightning. How do you increase the probability of ­getting struck?

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

  • Community Workshop in Tioga County on Environm ...
    The Clean Air Council and Penn Environment, state-wide environmental groups, will give an educational workshop in Tioga County for residents of north-central Pennsylvania on Saturday, March 24, 1-4 PM. The training will be held at the W.M. Tokishi Training Center, NYPUM Drive, Wellsboro, PA 1690 ...
  • New State Impact PA App
    Since I now live in south central PA (I moved south from Tioga County; north central PA) and have less access to the center of the gas drilling, I frequently use State Impact PA as a resource as well as tune in to WITF radio on my commutes to work, when I’m not pedaling my [...]
  • OilandGasHelp.com
    I happen to be looking for the location of a specific Northwest Savings Bank in PA and when I pulled up their website I found the below link. http://www.oilandgashelp.com/ It looks like Northwest Savings Bank has put together a section of their website to answer questions or help folks who are c ...
  • The Passage of House Bill 1950…
    I thought I’d highlight a few of the items that I find horrifying that passed with house bill 1950 during yesterdays vote. Municipalities will no longer be safe from drilling and the acceptable distances of drilling pads and compressor stations from homes or public spaces, such as schools, ...
  • Update on PA Roads Effected by Gas Drilling fr ...
    From the DCNR website: In recent years there has been a marked increase in natural gas activity in state forests in north central Pennsylvania . Visitor experiences and road usage can be impacted by this activity. Loyalsock State Forest Bodine Mountain Road: Heavy gas activity is to be expected ...

News Blaze

environment 360

  • Linking Twin Extinctions Of Species and Languages
    A recent study noted that most of the 6,900 languages spoken on Earth occur in regions of high biodiversity. These findings point to a strong correlation between biological and linguistic diversity, with languages closely connected to the habitats where they are found. BY VERLYN KLINKENBORG
  • Warmer Ocean Waters Lead to a Lobster Glut in ...
    Warmer Atlantic Ocean temperatures off the coast of Maine have caused the state’s bountiful supply of lobsters to shed their shells and come onto the market six weeks earlier than normal, creating a glut that has driven prices sharply down. The state’s 5,000 lobster fishermen are receiving less ...
  • Beetle's Rapid Evolution Helps Control Invasiv ...
    Scientists say that a species of beetle has rapidly altered its life cycle to more efficiently devour the invasive tamarisk tree in the southern United States. UCSB Tamarisk leaf beetle In a decade-long study, researchers from the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) found that ...
  • Cooling a Warming Planet: A Global Air Conditi ...
    The U.S. has long used more energy for air conditioning than all other nations combined. But as demand increases in the world’s warmer regions, global energy consumption for air conditioning is expected to continue to rise dramatically and could have a major impact on climate change. BY STAN COX
  • Aquaculture Output To Rise 33 Percent Over Nex ...
    The global aquaculture sector could produce 33 percent more fish for human consumption over the next decade, an increase in production that will help feed a growing world population even as fisheries are overexploited, a new UN report predicts. More than 79 million tons of farmed fish, crustacea ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Why Mexico’s election doesn’t matter
    The winner of Sunday’s Mexican presidential election is unlikely to change course on US trade and the drug war. Something remarkable happened, or rather, didn’t happen, in the middle of Mexico’s June 10 presidential debate when the three leading candidates were asked to share their views on fore ...
  • Government by the Banks, for the Banks: The ES ...
    German Chancellor Angela Merkel (pictured at the 2007 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland) capitulated to changes to a permanent Eurozone bailout fund on Friday, June 29. (Photo: Severin Nowacki / World Economic Forum) On Friday, June 29th, German Chancellor Angela Merkel acquiesced to ch ...
  • Rockefeller and Rothschild Dynasties Join Forces
    Two of the world’s best-known banking families are combining forces after RIT Capital Partners, the investment trust led by Jacob Rothschild, said on Wednesday that it was buying a minority stake in the investment and wealth management firm Rockefeller Financial Services. Under the terms of the ...
  • Pyramids: Cosmic Antennas (Secrets of Stalin’s ...
    Click "CC" in the player to enable English subtitles. Click "CC" in the player to enable English subtitles. It is believed that the pyramids -are not the tombs of the pharaohs, but they are high-tech devices to communicate with other planets. All information relating to pyramids rise the questio ...
  • Bernard Madoff brother pleads guilty in Ponzi case
    Bernard Madoff’s younger brother pleaded guilty to criminal charges that he helped advance the multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme, but denied knowing about the epic, decades-long fraud. With his guilty plea in Manhattan federal court on Friday, Peter Madoff is the first of Bernard Madoff’s family ...

Russia Today

  • Scattered gun fights sound ‘Battle For Damascus’
    After declaring an all-out offensive on government troops, Free Syrian Army militants are fighting to destabilize the capital Damascus. RT’s Maria Finoshina reports that sporadic gunfire and blasts could be heard close... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Exodus: Israel to drive Africans from Holy Land
    Israel has initiated the first stage of a controversial “emergency plan” aimed at interning and deporting an estimated 60,000 African immigrants. Officials believe the presence of the Africans poses a threat to the... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Soyuz delivers new crew to ISS
    The Russian Soyuz TMA-05M spacecraft has docked with the ISS, bringing a new crew for a four-month stint on the station. The international team headed by Indian-American astronaut Sunita Williams will conduct around 40... Read Full Article at RT.com
  • 150m skyscraper ablaze as fire tears through P ...
    A large blaze has broken out in a 42-story tower block in the center of the Turkish city of Istanbul. Firefighting crews brought the fire under control, rescuing those who had been trapped inside by the flames. Read Full Article at RT.com
  • Drug money and terrorism fuel HSBC? – Senate probe
    The international banking giant HSBC may have financed terrorist groups and allowed Mexican drug money into the US economy through its lax policies, a damning Senate report reveals. Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

  • More troops, more ‘drug war’, more ...
    This picture depict 750 more Mexican troops arriving this week with grand public display to Torreon, a metropolitan area of about 1,500,000 south of Chihuahua on the route north to Ciudad Juarez-El Paso. The newly selected Presidente Nieto is going to continue the US government’s ‘dr ...
  • Facebook advertisers can repost “likes&# ...
    Users of Facebook are accustomed to seeing friends listed in right-column ads, mentioned liking such-and-such a brand, or two or three. It’s understood that those friends at some point visited the brand’s page and clicked “like”, permitting that company, Amazon for exampl ...
  • Will US Secret Service regret fortifying a DNC ...
    The Secret Service planning its security measures for the upcoming DNC in Charlotte, North Caroline, has ordered unprecedented quantities of concrete barricades and fencing to insulate convention activities from the expected demonstrations. Protesters will have full run of downtown Charlotte, wi ...
  • Beautiful Swat Valley “the Switzerland o ...
  • Colorado Springs holds memorial service for yo ...
    Among the tributes Sunday were those from Montano’s colleagues in Colorado, Mexico and elsewhere around the world. In honor of his life, the song “Gracias a la Vida” by the late Argentine artist Mercedes Sosa was performed, as well as a video and a slide show montage compiled b ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • 9/11 Free Fall 6/22/12 (Wayne Coste Interview)
    Published on Jun 23, 2012 by Free Fall Hosted by Bernie Suarez and Andrew Steele. In this episode Bernie and Andy talk about the Scientific Method and NIST's disregard for it in favor "computer model science". The guest this week is engineer Wayne Coste, who talks about 9/11 science and cens ...
  • MIT Physics vs. 9/11 Conspiracy - Jeff King 19 ...
    David Chandler relays some sad news at 911blogger.com: Jeff King, an early scientific voice in the 9/11 Truth Movement, died on June 19 after a lengthy battle with amyloidosis and multple myeloma. He studied physics and engineering at MIT, left for a number of years, then re-enrolled, finished ...
  • Update to Blog Published 2/5/12
    My 2/5/12 blog, "What Does it Mean for the 9/11 Truth Movement if James R. Millette Proves Nano-thermite Wasn't Used to Take down the WTC Towers on 9/11?," outlines what steps must be taken to conclusively debunk nano-thermite as the culprit in our minds here. It's argued that the cas ...
  • Conspiracy Theorists
    Larger image: http://img862.imageshack.us/img862/1240/conspiracytheorists.jpg Hat tip to Scootle for the hilariously true picture. Related: Debunking Myths on Conspiracy Theories Conspiracy Theories Conspiracy Theorists NWO Conspiracy Bullsh!t Conspiracies - 9/11 and The New World Orde ...
  • Barry Jennings - Explosion or Collapse?
    For Barry Jennings' testimony, see: http://blip.tv/i-am-dylan-avery/barry-jennings-uncut-1071126 For a transcript of Jennings' testimony, see: http://s1.zetaboards.com/LooseChangeForums/single/?p=108750&t=451652 Main videos used from "WTC7 and the British Brainwashing Conspiracy." ...

Fooducate

  • Almond Calories Are Now 20% Lower. How Awesome ...
    New here?  Get our iPhone or Android App to scan & choose healthy groceries!  Or try Fooducate’s Online Nutrition App! Great news folks! Recent advances in calorie measurements have shown that the actual calories in almonds may be lower than what we think. The study, published in the A ...
  • Milk – The Pros and Cons
    New here?  Get our iPhone or Android App to scan & choose healthy groceries!  Or try Fooducate’s Online Nutrition App! Milk was in the news last week, following an opinion piece by well respected cookbook author and journalist Mark Bittman. Got Milk? Don’t Need It generated a liv ...
  • Nutrition Advice in Exactly 3 Words – #foodtri ...
    New here?  Get our iPhone or Android App to scan & choose healthy groceries!  Or try Fooducate’s Online Nutrition App! Election season is near, and short catchy slogans will surely be adorning TV screens, bumper stickers, and Twitter. We’re voting for healthy food, and to that end, are ...
  • Top 10 French Contributions to World Gastronom ...
    New here?  Get our iPhone or Android App to scan & choose healthy groceries!  Or try Fooducate’s Online Nutrition App! July 14 marks Bastille Day, or French Independence Day. Joyeux Quatorze Juillet!! We appreciate French food culture so much, that we decided to list a few contributions the ...
  • National French Fries Day Today. Here’s A Heal ...
    New here?  Get our iPhone or Android App to scan & choose healthy groceries!  Or try Fooducate’s Online Nutrition App! Today is National French Fries Day, another made up holiday by the food industry to get us to eat more.  Fries originated in Belgium, but it was our third President, T ...

Traffikd

  • Twitter Step by Step
    Twitter management can be a daunting task. There are a lot of articles telling you the do's and don'ts of Twitter, however it can still be difficult to pin down exactly what you should be doing each day step by step. If you are having a hard time getting organized and keeping up with everything ...
  • SEO Tips For Your Blog and Business
    When was the last time you thought about your site beyond adding content? It is probably time to take a look at how things are organized. When you started the site you had certain goals, ideas and experiences, now as time has passed it is a good idea to take another look at those goals [...]
  • How To Choose Keywords
    Every day millions of searches are performed on the internet and all of those search terms are saved and provided to us to peruse at our discretion. Unfortunately, on the other hand, there are millions of searches performed every day on the internet and ALL that data is saved and provided to us ...
  • Why Social Media Isn’t Working For You
    So you took the first step and signed yourself up for some social media sites and started marketing yourself and now you're waiting for the traffic to start rolling in. You've done your research about social media marketing and everyone tells you to find followers, engage them and turn them into ...
  • How Do I Tweet – Writing the $6 Million Dollar ...
    Twitter recently made claims that they had reached 100 million users. A fairly impressive feat to be sure, and that is reflected in the pull people give to twitter as a social media outlet. Great tweets can make you a star as fast bad ones can kill your image. Most of the time tweets just pass ...

Survival International

  • Ads target Machu Picchu tourists in row over u ...
    Uncontacted tribes share the same 'Sacred Valley' as Machu Picchu. The ancient site attracts up to 1 million tourists each year. © Icelight/Wikicommons Visitors to Peru’s most iconic tourist attraction, Machu Picchu, are being targeted by a new online ad campaign, in a row over a ...
  • Vietnam buys into Peru’s controversial oil fields
    PetroVietnam has taken on oil blocks in an area inhabited by uncontacted tribes © Survival Vietnamese oil company PetroVietnam has bought a stake in two Peruvian oil blocks in a region known to be inhabited by uncontacted tribes. The company has bought a 52.6% stake in Anglo-French Perenc ...
  • Outrage as World Bank funds power lines linked ...
    The Gibe III dam threatens the livelihoods of 200,000 Lower Omo tribal people, including the Karo. © Survival Human rights organizations, including Survival and Human Rights Watch, have fiercely criticized a decision by the World Bank to fund power lines in Ethiopia linked to the controvers ...
  • Anoushka Shankar backs Survival
    Anoushka Shankar supports Survival International and the need to 'protect all cultures'. © Survival British Indian sitar player and composer Anoushka Shankar shows her support for Survival International and tribal peoples by modelling an exclusive new limited edition T-shirt desig ...
  • Hunger - Ethiopia’s new weapon to force tribes ...
    Suri boy from Ethiopia's Lower Omo Valley. Violent land grabs are devastating the tribe. © Survival Survival has received disturbing reports from members of several tribes in Ethiopia’s Lower Omo Valley, which describe how the government is destroying their crops to force them to move ...

Greg Palast

  • Can we list your Group in our Election Guide?A ...
    We need you to join Operation PUSH, Rock the Vote, People for the American Way, League of United Latin American Citizens, Bobby Kennedy Jr., Thom Hartmann Show, Occupy.com and 150 other organizations.  Add your group's name to our book, website and film, Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How to ...
  • Fracking in Ireland and BeingDependent on Hall ...
    by Greg Palast for No Fracking Ireland No Fracking Ireland presents Greg Palast in Dublin, Today 3. July Connolly Books, Temple Bar - 1pm The Ireland Institute - 7.30pm Full info here On the 20th of April 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oilrig blew out in the Gulf of Mexico, killing eleven men insta ...
  • Wall Street, a Farce in Three Acts
    The Medicine Show Theater presents: Wall Street, a Farce in Three Acts Written in 1819 by William Holmes NEW YORK CITY July 5th – 8th 8pm With a special guests appearance by Greg Palast on July 7th & 8th for a talk-back with the audience about the parallels between the Panic of 1819 dep ...
  • Warren Ellis: "Money is Fictional"
    Warren Ellis, author of Transmetropolitan, Crooked Little Vein and yet to be released Gun Machine gave the opening remarks for me last night in London for my UK release of Vultures' Picnic. Thankfully he posted them this morning, here's a bit of them, the full text can be found on his website ww ...
  • The Euro is a Big Success - No Kidding
    by Greg Palast | The Guardian USA The idea that the euro has "failed" is dangerously naive. The euro is doing exactly what its progenitor – and the wealthy 1%-ers who adopted it – predicted and planned for it to do. That progenitor is former University of Chicago economist Robert Mundell. ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I reuse or recycle toilet seats?
    Apologies for the break in blogging – I’ve been super busy with other things over the last month. And in my absence, Recycle This had its sixth birthday! Happy Birthday website! :D Anyway, moving on: we’ve had an email from Stephanie about toilet seats: I just came into about 2 ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle empty bottled gas/p ...
    Lyndon has emailed to ask about reusing – or recycling – propane gas canisters (the ones for heating, barbecues or patio heaters etc): Trying to tidy up the yard at work, what can I do with some old gas bottles? If there is a company name on the bottles (like Calor Gas, Flo Gas or [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle large (catering siz ...
    Sam has emailed asking about large food cans: I have a number of large metal food cans, some zinc lined, which are called #10 size. They hold about 5 or 6 lbs (just under 3kg) of beans, or other foods. Now that they’re empty, they are open on one end, with no plastic lid to [...]
  • She recycled that! Upcycling novelty hats into ...
    Last September, Karen emailed us about the vast collection of novelty jester hats that her boyfriend had collected at various carnivals and festivals over the years. She wanted to know how she could reuse or recycle them as she hadn’t had much success giving them away. Lots of people made ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle wallpaper samples?
    Following on from the paint tester pots the other week, I’ve got some wallpaper samples that have served their purpose too. I really can’t wait for our renovations to be over! Like the paint, the samples were to check out ideas/colours/designs in-situ. Some of them were torn from rol ...

Age of Autism

  • Don't Do Anything You Wouldn't Want to See on ...
    By Kent Heckenlively, Esq. Did your mother ever say things to you like that when you were growing up? My mother did. I couldn't help thinking of my mother's admonition when I saw the headline from the July 14, 2012...
  • In This Day and Age: Abuse, Deaths and Injurie ...
    By Adriana Gamondes According to a 2008 study performed in Denmark, the mortality rate for individuals with autism is twice that of the general population. A more recent Swedish study found the rate 5.6 fold higher than expected. Whichever is...
  • New York Times Reports FDA Spying on its own S ...
    From The New York Times - full story HERE. WASHINGTON — A wide-ranging surveillance operation by the Food and Drug Administration against a group of its own scientists used an enemies list of sorts as it secretly captured thousands of...
  • Learn About Extreme Sports Camp for Kids with ...
    This Tuesday, noon Eastern, on the VoiceAmerica Health and Wellness Channel www.health.voiceamerica.com AutismOne: A Conversation of Hope Extreme Sports Camp, with Sally Bernard Autism enrichment pioneer, Sally Bernard, is joined by her staff at Extreme Sports Camp for this on...
  • Autism and Other Inconvenient Science Truths
    By Teresa Conrick There is no escaping the ever increasing research coming out weekly, showing solid science connections behind environmental and vaccine injury causing autism. One only has to read the news and research churning out inconvenient truths in science....

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

  • Through the Eyes of a Goose
    Whether it is big or small, complex or simple, all life is precious, right down to one little baby gosling, fresh from the egg. And as I discovered during my journey on the road to raising Little E.D. the Endurance Goose, there is a wealth of knowledge to be had just from the simple task of lear ...
  • Danish Farmer Reverses Illnesses in pigs by re ...
    A Danish farmer has gained huge public recognition for publishing his simple method for ridding his pigs of illness- removing genetically modified (GM) ingredients from their diet.
  • Did Rand Paul even read the GMO labeling amend ...
    Text of SA 2310. Read what it really says instead of what they tell you it says.
  • Nuclear Shutdown Now or Never
    Dr. Mae-Wan Ho and Prof. Peter Saunders Institute of Science in Society “We lost Japan,” said Rie Inomata, who works as an interpreter [1]. “I feel guilty and sorry for the children. They did not choose nuclear power plants, they did not choose to be born; but it is them that have to suffer in [ ...
  • Rand Paul Votes NO on GMO Labeling
    Thought that endorsing Romney was bad enough? In another turn of events that exposes the corporatist leanings of Rand Paul, Senator from Kentucky, he has voted NO on a GMO labeling amendment to the farm bill "to permit States to require that any food, beverage, or other edible product offered fo ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • Cooling May Help After Cardiac Arrest in Pregnancy
    MedPage Today – A mother and her child were doing fine 3 years after the woman received therapeutic hypothermia following a cardiac arrest during pregnancy, a case report showed. The woman had normal neurologic function and exercise capacity and a left ventricular ejection fraction exceedi ...
  • How plastic bags in ocean cause untold harm
    The tonnes of litter we thoughtlessly discard every year is destroying our shores — and poisoning the food chain. That’s the stark warning from green campaigners who say the litter left festooning beaches, such as Crawfordsburn in north Down, a week after it hosted Tidy Northern Ireland’s Blue F ...
  • West ‘blackmails’ Russia on Syria
    BBC – Mr Lavrov said the West had told Russia to back a draft resolution on sanctions or it would “refuse to extend the mandate of the observer mission”. It was “not right” to say that pressure should only be brought on the government of President Bashar al-Assad an ...
  • Syrian forces surround rebels fighting in capital
    Reuters – Syrian government forces encircled rebel fighters in Damascus on Monday, waging a second day of fighting that residents described as the worst to hit the capital since the 17-month-old revolt against President Bashar al-Assad began. Armoured vehicles rolled into the southern dist ...
  • Welsh people could be most ancient in UK, DNA ...
    BBC – Welsh people could lay claim to be the most ancient Britons, according to scientists who have drawn up a genetic map of the British Isles. Research suggests the Welsh are genetically distinct from the rest of mainland Britain. Professor Peter Donnelly, of Oxford University, said the ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Controversial Caribbean whaling approved with ...
    Representatives of the International Whaling Commission meeting in Panama this week have approved a controversial proposal extending the Aboriginal and Subsistence Whaling quotas for three countries: the United States, Russia and the Caribbean island nation of St. Vincent & the Grenadines.  Th ...
  • Keystone XL southern leg permitted as early as ...
    As a deadline rapidly approaches that will automatically permit the construction of the southern leg of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, an increasingly vocal group of landowners, environmentalists and even tea party members are saying that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is now ramming ...
  • EPA proposes more stringent soot rules
    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced proposed new regulations Thursday that would further reduce legal limits for fine particle pollution -- otherwise known as soot -- in the nation’s air. Gina McCarthy, assistant administrator for the EPA's Office of Air and Radiation, made ...
  • Diesel exhaust can cause cancer, World Health ...
    Diesel engines power commerce and transportation around the world, but the exhaust they produce can prove deadly. The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Tuesday that it now classifies diesel exhaust as a cause of cancer. While major advances in technology have helped clean up some dies ...
  • Global warming could lead to more wildfire in ...
    California and the West, which have experienced a surge in wildfire during the last decade, can expect more of the same with global warming, according to a study published Tuesday.

water.org

  • Collecting Water in Majidpur
    A family collects drinking water from a newly installed submersible pump water supply system in the Majidpur slum of Savar in India. The water system was installed through the assistance of DSK and Water.org's WaterCredit program. At present, 19 poor households are using this water system.
  • Learning About Sanitation
    Mrs. Bhagya Shrinivas is a resident of Karthikere village & panchayath Chikamagaluru district in India. She has recently married Mr. Shrinivas who is a small businessman with a small petty shop in Karthikere. They have their own house and live there alone.
  • Toilets Bring Dignity
    Imagine for a moment what it might be like for a boy like Shipon and his family to lack access to a toilet. Then imagine how their lives would change when they were able to have one they could all use nearby to their home. Shipon is 10 years old and his family has just gained access to a toilet. ...
  • Water in Adina Faso, Ethiopia
    The residents of Adina Faso used to walk four hours each day to gather unclean water, but after working together with Water.org, they now have twenty-four-hour access to clean water, right in the middle of their village.
  • Kids Spreading the Word
    To celebrate World Water Day, two rallies were organized in the communities of Savar-Aminbazar in India through children's group members and DSK, one of Water.org's program partners. The theme of the rally was “Everybody should drink safe water to lead a healthy and happy life, and have to acces ...

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

  • The Deniers on CBC Radio's 'Ideas'
    The science is settled - is now the mantra of climate change activism? Those who disagree are either in denial or in the pay of an oil company. But long time environmentalist and energy activist Lawrence Solomon says no, the science is not settled on global warming. Ideas producer David Cayley b ...

Margaret's News

  • "Ive Been Duped" - Reflections on Israel and P ...
    Do you know the frustration you feel when you believed in something strongly and then you realize that the information that made you believe was from a source with an agenda to deceive? Submitted by Ken D. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • What people will do for beauty: 8 Grossest Spa ...
    uh..the title says it all :) Submitted by Vicky Pitchford to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • White House sees more pain for Iran as it clea ...
    Aggressive war is illegal, immoral against nations that are no threat, is nonbelligerent & it is insane! Call your Reps. Tell your friends, rouse up the good folk in your church,mosque and synagouge. We must stop this exported violence or we are screwed. Submitted by michael hall to World &nbs ...
  • Iran Bashing, Terrorism, and Who Chose the Cho ...
    Dedicated to the long-suffering Palestinians and Iranians who have been sidelined by the United Nations in favour of the Nuclear Apartheid State of Zionist Israel in the most blatant exercise in International Double Standards that our world has ever known Submitted by Ken D. to World  |&nb ...
  • Tibetan singer detained and tortured
    25-year-old singer, Ugyen Tenzin, was detained last month soon after the release of his album titled, An Unending Flow of My Hearts Blood,.Unconfirmed reports said that Ugyen Tenzin has been beaten in custody and disabled a month after album released Submitted by Red Thorvenkiold to World &nb ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

  • Canadian Solar, Inc. Purchases First American ...
    Canadian Solar, Inc. is at it again.  Just one day after signing a 17-megawatt supply agreement with an independent power producer in Ontario, the company announced it had acquired 122 MW of solar projects in the United States. read more
  • Canadian Solar, Inc. Purchases First American ...
    Canadian Solar, Inc. is at it again.  Just one day after signing a 17-megawatt supply agreement with an independent power producer in Ontario, the company announced it had acquired 122 MW of solar projects in the United States. ...
  • Potentia and Canadian Solar Sign Supply Agreem ...
    Canadian Solar, Inc. has signed a 17-megawatt supply agreement with Potentia Solar, Inc.  The solar panels will be used to develop more than 100 rooftop solar projects in Ontario. read more
  • Potentia and Canadian Solar Sign Supply Agreem ...
    Canadian Solar, Inc. has signed a 17-megawatt supply agreement with Potentia Solar, Inc.  The solar panels will be used to develop more than 100 rooftop solar projects in Ontario. read more
  • Konarka Technologies Files for Bankruptcy
    Konarka Technologies, a developer of thin-film solar panels, has filed for bankruptcy and will begin to liquidate its assets immediately. read more

News Blaze

Worldnews

  • Cristiano Ronaldo & Messi among the 32 no ...
    A panel of journalists has chosen the players who will be in contention for the prize, which was created in 2011, with the names of the three finalists to be unveiled next month By Luis Mira More On : Arsenal, Atletico...
  • Santos send representatives to AC Milan t ...
    Goalkeeper Rafael could be included as part of a deal to bring the idol back permanently to his boyhood home, with the Rossoneri unwilling to negotiate a loan move By Daniel...
  • Federer is new No. 1 king
    Roger Federer set another record on Monday when he began his 287th week as world No. 1. The 17-time Grand Slam champion surpassed American great Pete Sampras for...
  • US STOCKS-Shares edge down after retail s ...
    * Retail sales unexpectedly fall in June * Glaxo to buy Human Genome after sweetened $3 billion offer * Visa at all-time high, Mastercard rises on lawsuit settlement * Indexes down: Dow 0.2 pct, S&P 0.1 pct, Nasdaq 0.3 pct By Edward Krudy NEW YORK, July 16 (Reuters) - A surprise decline in J ...
  • Stocks edge lower after consumer spending ...
    NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are heading for their seventh drop in eight days after a report that U.S. consumers cut their spending. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 25 points, or 0.2 percent, to 12,752 in late afternoon trading Monday. The Commerce Department said retail sales fell 0.5 perce ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

Common Dreams

  • US Drought Disaster Worst In Over 50 Years
    Boats sit on the bottom in a dry cove at Morse Reservoir in Noblesville, Ind., July 16, 2012. (AP Photo) The 2012 drought disaster is now the largest in over 50 years, and among the ten largest of the past century, according to a new report released by the National Climatic Data Center today.rea ...
  • Shell Loses Control Of Arctic Drilling Rig In ...
    Royal Dutch Shell’s preparedness to drill offshore in the harsh and remote Arctic Ocean this summer has been called into question by a series of recent events. read more
  • US Navy Fires at Boat in Persian Gulf, Killing One
    USNS Rappahannock A US military fuel supply ship fired at a small boat in the Persian Gulf on Monday killing one person and injuring three on board, according to US officials. read more
  • Britain Flooded with 'Brand Police' to Protect ...
    Almost 300 "brand police" are soon to hit the streets of the UK, working to protect the advertising rights of major corporate Olympic sponsors, including McDonald's, Coke, BP oil, General Electric, Adidas, Dow Chemical, Procter & Gamble and others, the Independent reports. ...
  • Over 100,000 Protest Nuclear Restart in Tokyo
    Over 100,000 protesters took to the streets in central Tokyo on Monday to protest the country's return to nuclear power. The demonstration was one of the largest of its kind since Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda announced that the country would restart its nuclear reactors last month. ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Is Syria Worth World War III?
    By Timothy V. Gatto The question of Syria’s problems resulting in a nuclear holocaust is real, not imagined. According to the NATO treaty the treaty states that an attack on a NATO member is regarded as an attack on all NATO members. “By joining NATO you receive the protecti ...
  • Washington's Man in Tripoli
    by Stephen Lendman Mahmoud Jabril takes over as Libya's new leader. He heads its puppet government. Sham elections installed him. The process was farcical. Illusion substituted for reality. Obama called his ascension "another milestone in the country's transition to democracy." EU l ...
  • We The People - What Does That Really Mean Today
    Larry Pinkney "Tell no lies, claim no easy victories." - Amilcar Cabral The U.S. Declaration of Independence (including its Preamble) and the U.S. Constitution, though egregiously deficient with regards to the rights of Indigenous Native people, Black people, and women, etc., were importa ...
  • International Law Revisionism
    by Stephen Lendman In January 2012, Netanyahu appointed a three-member committee headed by former Supreme Court Justice Edmond Levy. Included were former Foreign Ministry legal adviser Alan Baker and former Tel Aviv District Court president Tchia Shapira. They examined three issues: ...
  • Before the Collapse
    By Timothy v. Gatto A few observations: 1. The Media is controlled by the government and most of what you see and hear from it is a lie. 2. The United States is engaged in wars all over the planet for resources. 3. Sociopaths run our government. 4. The U.S. governmen ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Improve seniors care to improve healthcare for all
    Our latest study shows that BC seniors' access to home and community care continues to decline, while at the same time our population is aging. Home and community care includes services like home nursing, residential care and home support that help keep seniors healthy and independent. Without t ...
  • The Dark Side of Investment Agreements: Video
    Movements around the world have put the spotlight on bailouts and tax evasion that have enriched the 1% at the expense of the 99% but this is only part of the picture. Now the Transnational Institute (TNI) has launched a new accessible popular video animation that exposes how inte ...
  • CCPA-NS 5th Annual Fundraiser: Dinner and an E ...
    Join CCPA-NS and its community of supporters on October 25th for its 5th annual fund raising gala. World-renown CCPA economist, Armine Yalnizyan, will deliver an address on the current federal government's agenda of austerity.  This will be a must-see for any Nova Scotian. Purchase tickets ...
  • CCPA's National Office is moving!
    The week of July 1st, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives' National Office will be moving to Under One Roof Properties at 251 Bank Street, Suite 500, Ottawa ON, K2P 1X3. Please note that our phone, fax and general e-mail will remain the same: Telephone: 613-563-1341 | Fax: 613-233-1458 | ...
  • Australian economist Steve Keen's CCPA lecture ...
    The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives' Ontario team was pleased to host a lecture, as well as a wine and cheese social in downtown Toronto on June 28th, featuring globally recognized economist Steve Keen, who is based at the University of Western Sydney, Australia. The lecture focused on t ...

World Wide Hippies

  • When rape jokes aren’t funny
    By Julie Burton and Michelle Kinsey Bruns Editor’s note: Julie Burton is president of the Women’s Media Center. Michelle Kinsey Bruns is online manager for the Women’s Media Center. Both are longtime feminist activists and organizers. (CNN) — When the comedian Daniel Tosh ...
  • Fracking
    By Cindi Silva,Worldwide Hippies/CJE While awake dreams etch into your brain the subversion of natural order something to strive for cast aside or regain while asleep most are easily forgotten others chilling heart beating faster iv drips filled with coffee after – yet too much awake cause ...
  • SAMs for Uncle Sam
    From the Book RADICAL PEACE: People Refusing War By William T. Hathaway Merna al-Marjan is a young Iraqi who is currently in Germany studying European history. We talked in her dormitory room, a spartan but functional cubicle in a building that embodies a hopeful change in European history: it w ...
  • The Mitt’s Hitting The Fan
    By Sherry Pasquarello,Worldwide Hippies/CJE Yes, it does look that way, but I never take much for granted. Especially when it comes to the voting public! I can say this, the pubs and clubs and diners are strangely quiet when it comes to politics. Frankly I couldn’t understand how anyone other th ...
  • Fukushima man-made catastrophe hitting West Co ...
    by: Pomegranate,infoshop.org - Commission reports government, regulators and Tepco collusion betraying human right to safety. Findings of the 19-member commission on the ongoing Fukushima nuclear catastrophe, based on the experts’ six-month investigation, conclude that it is a man-made eve ...

FourWinds10

Crisis Maven

  • The End Game or: How the Dupes were Duped or: ...
    The Euro was probably the most hyped-in currency the world may have ever known. That fact alone should have been reason for suspicion. In this article we contrast some of the eulogies heaped on the Euro back in around 2001/2002 when it was introduced as a tangible currency with these past weeks& ...
  • The End Game or: How the Dupes were Duped or: ...
    The Euro was probably the most hyped-in currency the world may have ever known. That fact alone should have been reason for suspicion. In this article we contrast some of the eulogies heaped on the Euro back in around 2001/2002 when it was introduced as a tangible currency with these past weeks& ...
  • Neutrinos, Physics, Meteors and the Survival o ...
    As you may have noticed, CrisisMaven recently dabbled in speculative thought about the role of a universe-wide encyclopedia cum news service. The reason this came about was that recently at the Large Hadron Collider around Geneva/Switzerland and crossing under the French border a team of scienti ...
  • Neutrinos, Physics, Meteors and the Survival o ...
    As you may have noticed, CrisisMaven recently dabbled in speculative thought about the role of a universe-wide encyclopedia cum news service. The reason this came about was that recently at the Large Hadron Collider around Geneva/Switzerland and crossing under the French border a team of scienti ...
  • Archaeology, the Internet and Neutrinos
    Or: Space and the Universe are a Palimpsest . Most recently Israeli archaeologists unearthed a crusader’s inscription believed to be around 800 years old and, which is why it makes headlines, written in Arabic. For those who have followed archaelogical progress over several decades (and re ...

Capital Flow Analysis

  • Stock buybacks are bad for investors: Further ...
    In the working paper “The Buyback Monitor - July 2009: Corporate Stock Buyback Profits of 273 Firms from 2000 into 2009“, published on the Social Sciences Research Network, M.A. Gumport, CFA, provides further evidence that stock buybacks are not as good for investors as often touted ...
  • Why Obama’s healthcare scheme portends stagfl ...
    The trillion-dollar Obama health care plan increases the odds that US economic recover will be delayed, and that unemployment and inflation will increase. The main thrust of the Obama plan is to increase taxes on individuals earning more than $250,000 a year, while forcing all but the tiniest ...
  • How long would it take to work off the US trad ...
    The rest of the world holds $16.8 trillion in US financial assets, according to Federal Reserve release Z.1, as of Q1 2009. [...]
  • Why Bernanke’s flawed “exit strategy” policy p ...
    In a lead op-ed editorial in the Wall Street Journal on July 21, 2009, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke revealed the Fed’s exit strategy with regards to the inflationary effects of the Obama “spending is stimulus” packages and other government measure to contain the curren ...
  • Stocks surge on spurious earnings reports: Q2 2009
    No one knows for sure the real earnings of American corporations. In Q1 2009, according to the Federal Reserve flow of funds table F.102, after-tax profits of US non-financial, non-farm corporations, on an annual basis, were about $589.9 billion. However, about 50% of these after-tax earnings ...

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • Environmentalism is a Profitable Business
    Global Experiment With the Climate I want to preface this column by saying that I am very concerned about climate change. The rapid growth of atmospheric carbon dioxide shows no sign of abating, and I have concerns over what this will ultimately mean for the climate. The fact is that we are cond ...
  • Poor Corn Crop Will Have Major Impact on Ethan ...
    One of the biggest threats to the U.S. ethanol industry is a major drought/crop failure in the heart of corn country, says Robert Rapier. This year we may be experiencing such an event.
  • Enough Oil to Fry the Planet? — R-Squared Ener ...
    In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I discuss the recently released paper by former Eni executive Leonardo Maugeri — in which he suggests global oil supplies will increase by 17 million barrels per day by the end of the decade — as well as George Monbiot’s high ...
  • Renewable Energy — Facts and Figures
    Today’s article is the 5th and final installment of my graphical look at the recently released 2012 BP Statistical Review of World Energy. Previous installments were: How Much Oil is Left in the World? How Much Oil Does the World Produce? World Energy Consumption Facts, Figures, and Shocke ...
  • Announcing Energy Trends Insider
    Consumer Energy Report covers a wide variety of energy topics, and is targeted at a broad audience. Our columns tend to identify risks and opportunities, but we generally stop short of providing specific financial advice that may be better suited for a narrower subset of our audience. Of course ...

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • Do You Really Need That Filling?
    We've known for some time now that silver amalgam fillings containing the neurotoxin mercury are harmful. But what about the alternative? The results of a newly released study suggest some white composite fillings could be dangerous, too. Researchers at New England Research Institutes and the ...
  • Move Over Disney World: Americans Prefer Natur ...
    In a controversial election year, countless debates fly back and forth from both political parties, particularly about environmental issues—be they climate change or controversial natural gas drilling. But there appears to be one environmental issue on which all Americans agree, and that's envi ...
  • 6 Surprising Benefits of Meditation
    Think meditation is just for former Beatles and people with too much time on their hands? Think again. This underrated practice could be one of the most valuable medical devices you're not using. Research has shown that it can help with everything from getting over a stressful day to staving of ...
  • Dogs Help People Breathe Easier
    Dander particles, fuzzy fur, hairballs accumulating in household corners…Everything about owning a pet suggests breathing problems. In fact, it's quite the opposite. A new study out of Finland discovered another one of the benefits of owning a dog. Researchers found that babies living in a home ...
  • 5 Disturbing Facts about Plastic
    Take a quick look around you and inventory all the plastic products you see. Your computer monitor and keyboard, your pens, even the carpet under your feet—all are made possible by plastic. The American Chemistry Council likes to throw out its old adage, "Plastic makes it possible." A ...

big think

  • Why We Marry
    Here’s a question I have been struggling for years: Why do we marry? I am not confused about the desire to have a wedding – the pretty dress, standing before family and friends, the party – that part I get.  It’s the need to seek the government seal of approval of the marriage that challenges me ...
  • We Can End Poverty, So Why Don't We?
    Almost everyone agrees that poverty is not a good thing.  Almost everyone would like to end poverty.  Almost everyone would benefit from ending poverty.  So why don't we?  To find out, let's look at the problem through the lens of game theory.  In every political cycle, our leaders face ...
  • The Singularity: Will Transcending Human Intel ...
    What's the Latest Development? A recent work of science-fiction, called New Model Army, by English author Adam Roberts examines what the world may look like were humans to submit their individual consciousness to a hive mind, where the aims of the collective were more important than indi ...
  • Mobile Technology Creates Alternative Financia ...
    What's the Latest Development? The population of Volos, Greece, who are suffering beneath the weight their country's financial crisis, have come together to use mobile technology as an alternative to the international banking system that has failed them so spectacularly. In Volos, market ...
  • A Vision of Crimes in the Future
    Fresh off the press from TEDGlobal, Marc Goodman's talk on the future of crime has been causing a bit of stir on the blogosphere. Goodman is a global security advisor and futurist focused on the disruptive impact of technology in security, business and international affairs - and has a unique .. ...

Information Liberation

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • More Of The Shiny Stuff
    A few random jottings on gold while I’m out on the road; back in a week. The other day, I came across this article in the Mises Daily, taken from Joseph T. Salerno’s testimony submitted to the U.S. House Subcommittee … Continue reading →
  • Meet The Asylum’s New Management
    The iron ore town of Whyalla on South Australia’s Eyre Peninsula is one of the places most threatened by Labor’s Carbon Tax – the tax that Gillard promised before the last Federal election she would never introduce, and which came … Continue reading →
  • Gunwalker – What The Hell???
    I don’t know much about this whole Gunwalker episode, beyond the little I’ve read in the news. But it’s now meant the United States’ chief executive law officer has just been held in contempt of Congress. Pretty serious stuff. I … Continue reading →
  • Daily Telegraph Delingpole Refugee Camp
    G’day Folks, The DT blogs are down for maintenance for an unusually long period of time. So all regular readers of James Delingpole’s blog are welcome to continue the discussion here. Even the trolls can come in, just to make … Continue reading →
  • Parliament On A Knife Edge Part VI – Wha ...
    Well, it’s finally happened. The scandal surrounding corruption in the Australian Workers’ Union in the 1990s, which LibertyGibbert covered last August, has now been formally raised in Federal Parliament. To refresh your memory, the story regards the activities of one … Continu ...

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Be wary of miracles too good to be true
    Not for the first time I’ve suspected that lyricist and drummer with the Canadian rock band Rush, Neil Peart has been reading my blog. First time was having written about the concept of earthshine, the band’s next album featured a song on that very concept, the reflected light from t ...
  • Be wary of miracles too good to be true
    Not for the first time I’ve suspected that lyricist and drummer with the Canadian rock band Rush, Neil Peart has been reading my blog. First time was having written about the concept of earthshine, the band’s next album featured a song on that very concept, the reflected light from t ...
  • The Darwin Lost Weekend
    A man tries to convince his friend that Charles Darwin conceived his book ‘Origin of Species’ on the concept of evolution in the town of Cromer, Norfolk, England and not in the Galapagos Islands. This video was premiered at the first Science Online conference back in 2009 but has onl ...
  • The Darwin Lost Weekend
    A man tries to convince his friend that Charles Darwin conceived his book ‘Origin of Species’ on the concept of evolution in the town of Cromer, Norfolk, England and not in the Galapagos Islands. This video was premiered at the first Science Online conference back in 2009 but has onl ...
  • Who do you follow back on Twitter?
    There is almost no limit to the number of people you could follow on Twitter, but when someone follows you, how do you decide whether to follow back or not? I’ve updated my handy cut-out-and-keep Twitter Decision Flowchart for the scientific age. You may wish to add your own block words, s ...

RFF Library

  • Geochemical Evidence for Possible Natural Migr ...
    PNAS  (published online before print July 9, 2012, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1121181109) / by Nathaniel R. Warner, Robert B. Jackson, Thomas H. Darrah, Stephen G. Osborn, Adrian Down, Kaiguang Zhao, Alissa White and Avner Vengosha http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/07/03/1121181109 [Abstract] The de ...
  • Economic Impacts of National Monument Designat ...
    BBC Research and Consulting for the National Trust for Historic Preservation http://bit.ly/P31zZf [From Sen. Michael Bennet's website] A new report released today determines that national monument designation for the Chimney Rock Archaeological Area would double the economic impact Chimney Rock ...
  • Highway Projects: Some Federal and State Pract ...
    US Government Accountability Office http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-12-593 [From a Greenwire article by Jason Plautz, sub. req'd] Provisions in a 2005 transportation law that allow construction in certain circumstances on protected public lands, exclusions from environmental review for some proj ...
  • Water Quality Index Aggregation and Cost Benef ...
    US EPA, National Center for Environmental Economics / by Patrick J. Walsh and William Wheeler http://yosemite.epa.gov/EE/epa/eed.nsf/WPNumber/2012-05 The water quality index (WQI) has emerged as a central way to convey water quality information to policy makers and the general public and is regu ...
  • What is the Optimal Offsets Discount under a S ...
    US EPA, National Center for Environmental Economics / by Heather Klemick http://yosemite.epa.gov/EE/epa/eed.nsf/WPNumber/2012-04 Despite concerns about additionality, leakage, permanence, and verification, carbon offsets have been proposed as a core component of recent cap-and-trade proposals in ...

Scientific American - News

First Truths

  • The Anarchist Lineage
     Interesting passage from Samuel Clark's Living Without Domination: The Possibility of an Anarchist Utopia. I would wonder what the anarchists I know think of the various lists referenced here: This account of anarchism as a permanent human tendency has been attacked by a number of authors. ...
  • "Crisis of the State"
    From Simon Clark's Keynesianism, Monetarism, and the Crisis of the State: However this structural crisis was not the result of the changing functional requirements of changes in the labour process, but of the tendency for capital accumulation to take the form of the overaccumulation and uneven d ...
  • "Aspects of the Post-Ricardian Literature"
    Interesting and thought-provoking passage from Samuel Hollander's Economics and Ideology: Aspects of the Post-Ricardian Literature (1979): It was Marx's position, as we have mentioned, that while the labor writers of the 1820s drew upon Ricardo's value theory to reach their conclusion regarding ...
  • "Integrated Geographies"
    From Anthony Ince's Whither Anarchist Geography?:It has been said that anarchism combines a socialist critique of liberalism and a liberal critique of socialism. Its refusal to focus merely on "economics" or "freedom" or "culture," and so on, means that anarchism is inherently multifaceted and a ...
  • Colbert on Atheists
    I enjoyed this passage from Stephen Colbert's I Am America (And So Can You!): AtheistsThese No-goodnik no-Godniks are growing in numbers and power in America. It makes me wonder how a God could exist Who'd allow people to piss me off so much.Luckily, a recent survey published in the American Soc ...

Media Co-Op

  • Embracing Voices, Creating Personal Landscapes
    New restaurant brings spoken-word to its space   “I wanted this place to be a cultural centre for things going on in the community,” says Jeff Stewart, owner of the new sandwich restaurant/cafe, Pressed. Open to the Ottawa ...
  • Tired of Rats and Demolition Disaster, DTES Co ...
    July 16 2012   Tired of rats & demolition disaster DTES community challenges city hall to act UNCEDED COAST SALISH TERRITORIES – On Monday July 16 Downtown Eastside (DTES) residents gathered outside the Pantages demolition site to draw attention to rats and rubble disaster that fe ...
  • Fighting Police Impunity in the Courts
    Police Notes, the Law, and the Murders of Levi Shaeffer and Douglas Minty by the OPP An update from the ongoing Justice For Levi campaign by Peterborough based cook, gardener and agitator Rachelle Sauve.  Click here for more informatio ...
  • Lost (& Found) in Translation: Social Solidari ...
    la grève est étudiante, la lutte est populaire / the strike is the students', the struggle is everyone’s * * * I took the above photo shortly after I got to Montreal, some two months ago, never intending to stay so long, and having little idea what the black letters on this banner mean ...
  • Cooked Salmon
      Last month Nova Scotia's provincial government announced a $25 million loan to Cooke Aquaculture, a New Brunswick-based fish farming giant, with the promise that the loan will help Cooke expand operations in Nova ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • What exactly is the USA?
    David Seaton's News LinksRight now the question would have to be: what exactly is the USA?? The people? The system? The economy? Whose economy? What exactly is the USA? This is really important in America's case, more so than in other countries, because "American" isn't an ethnic grou ...
  • Globalization: King and country
    David Seaton's News Links We are white mice participating in a great historical experiment.The idea of completely untrammeled, frictionless capitalism has only been a theoretical construct till now, but we are almost there today.There are basically two -- untried -- theories of how this would p ...
  • The World Economy: into the Wild Blue Yonder
    David Seaton's News Links  It would be comforting for many to imagine that our globalized economy is a conspiracy,  a murky cabal, directed from the shadows by some Bilderberger-ish, ecumenical-protocol, of sinister "elders", who are pulling all the strings.I say comforting because pre ...
  • India holds up a mirror for the American right ...
      "Evil requires the sanction of the victim." Ayn Rand" David Seaton's News Links The other day in my perusings I stumbled upon this troubling jewelNot only do Indians perform more Google searches for (Ayn) Rand than citizens of any country in the world except the United States, but ...
  • Why is the American left so useless? - II
    David Seaton's News Links On April 4th, 1968, the day when Martin Luther King Jr. was shot down in Memphis Tennessee, the American left lost its way. Less than a year before he was murdered, King set out to channel the energy and power of the Civil Rights movement toward ending poverty amon ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • The Mystery of Mitt Romney's Lame Defense of H ...
    Ezra Klein is puzzled: That Romney wasn’t better prepared for the attacks on Bain and the questions over his taxes is one of the great mysteries of this campaign. An example: In 2008, Romney turned more than 20 years of his tax returns over to the McCain team in order to be vetted for ...
  • Is Marriage Just for the Middle Class These Days?
    Jason DeParle had a long piece in the New York Times yesterday about the breakdown of marriage outside the upper middle class. The takeaway sentence is this one: "Less than 10 percent of the births to college-educated women occur outside marriage, while for women with high school degrees or le ...
  • Today's Adventures in Pseudo Profundity
    Will the Obama campaign's attacks on Bain Capital make a difference in November? Jamelle Bouie picks up the phone to ask: Matthew Dickinson, a professor of political science at Middlebury College, is skeptical that these attacks will have any effect on how voters choose in November....The i ...
  • The Public Wants to Spend Less on Defense
    National surveys have long confirmed a stubborn public unwillingness to cut federal spending (aside from foreign aid, which people always think is much larger than it really is). Generally speaking, people support budget cuts in the abstract but oppose them when it comes to cutting specific pr ...
  • Quote of the Day: Affirmative Action for Irani ...
    From CNN Pentagon correspondent Chris Lawrence: Iran already has a missile that could reach the U.S. if it could put it on a ship and move it to within 600 miles of the American coastline. Well, yes, I suppose so. And I could run a four-minute mile if you gave me a thousand-yard hea ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 334: We’re Getting Soft
    Topics: Work sucks Dream Team The need to compare Each generation gets a little softer The Dark Knight Rises The 3 Titties Live ON Fat sex Sharks still ain’t shit Kriss’ religious rant Share with your friends:
  • IC 333: Fuck Summer
    Topics: Summer is Horrible Summer was more fun as a kid UFC 148 recap People hating athletes Team loyalty Team BlowJob for the champs? The blow job orgy…the worst orgy Booty pop videos with 6 year olds? We gotta do better Acknowledging privileged != you’re a racist The Dark Knight Ri ...
  • IC 332: Return of Great Moments In White Privilege
    Topics: FUCK PEPCO Could Sony & Marvel Studios/Disney work together? Cap Cod has great white sharks Bullsharks are like modded Xboxes Great Moments in White Privilege: White folks mad at Chris Rock Slavery was a long time ago….so what? Admitting and recognizing mistakes doesn’t ...
  • IC 331: Pants Down, Man Down
    Topics: Tyler Perry as Alex Cross Tyler Perry wants to branch out Every Black man wants to play Black Panther Don’t fuck up Black Panther Chris Nolan to be on the walk of fame Bad Internet music How to shoot a music video while at work Obama Care survives Mark Jackson gets blackmailed Fear ...
  • IC 330: The Chitlin Circus
    Topics: Rod & the Summer of Bron The irrational sports fan The unfortunate Chris Bosh video Sometimes shit is just funny Dredd trailer Taken 2….sold Need 4 Speed The Movie Gym bans skinny people Fat People live the good life Getting bullied by middle school kids Kids are assholes Rape ...

Simple Climate

  • Rich versus poor obstructs climate progress
    Though the 45,000 strong international Rio+20 meeting last month seemingly did little for climate change and the environment, social and economic issues must be resolved for such negotiations to be successful in future.
  • Beefing down farming could cut carbon
    Changing our meat consumption habits, including switching from cow to pig farming, will be necessary to feed the world and allow plant-based biofuels and carbon capture to reduce CO2 emissions say Tom Powell and Tim Lenton at the University of Exeter.
  • Climate change brings landscapes to their last ...
    Nature’s beauty means different things to each of us – but undoubtedly it burns some images onto our souls. Our favourite scenery is less constant than we sometimes suppose,  changing from day to day and season to season. But the slowest changes can be the most heartbreaking, eventua ...
  • Hope from a surprising source that we can cont ...
    While the optimism of the first Rio 'Earth Summit' seems misplaced 20 years later, the world's scientists have outlined the challenges we need to tackle from consumption and population, and I found hope from an unlikely place that there's some chance we might be able to.
  • Weather watching hits home with powerful warmi ...
    From hurricanes to heatwaves, Simple Climate has regularly reported on extreme weather events linked to global warming. This week I bring pictures from previous entries showing how these events and other more gradual changes are spread across the world, giving reasons close to home for all of us ...

e!Science News

  • Are consumers aware that they are drawn to the ...
    Consumers are more likely to select products located in the horizontal center of a display and may not make the best choices as a result, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research. read more
  • Poor people value marriage as much as the midd ...
    Poor people hold more traditional values toward marriage and divorce than people with moderate and higher incomes, UCLA psychologists report in the current issue of the Journal of Marriage and Family. read more
  • Mayo Clinic maps brain, finds Alzheimer's pati ...
    Activity lingers longer in certain areas of the brain in those with Alzheimer's than it does in healthy people, Mayo Clinic researchers who created a map of the brain found. The results suggest varying brain activity may reduce the risk of Alzheimer's disease. The study, "Non-stationarity i ...
  • UC research reveals largest ancient dam built ...
    Recent excavations, sediment coring and mapping by a multi-university team led by the University of Cincinnati at the pre-Columbian city of Tikal, a paramount urban center of the ancient Maya, have identified new landscaping and engineering feats, including the largest ancient dam built by the M ...
  • Lab-engineered muscle implants restore functio ...
    New research shows that exercise is a key step in building a muscle-like implant in the lab with the potential to repair muscle damage from injury or disease. In mice, these implants successfully prompt the regeneration and repair of damaged or lost muscle tissue, resulting in significant functi ...

unEarthed

  • Shell's Promise To Protect Arctic Lost At Sea
    Drilling proposals foreshadow larger struggle over Arctic Shell Oil’s Arctic drilling plans are premised on a growing legacy of broken promises regarding the company’s ability to protect the fragile Arctic from drilling ...
  • Moapa vs. NV Energy or David vs. Goliath
    News report investigates coal ash pollution in Moapa For years, white ash has been blowing across the desert from the Reid Gardner Power Plant right into the homes on the Moapa Paiute Indian Reservation. The Paiutes claim that this ...
  • U.S. Coal Industry Eyes Overseas Market
    Shifting economic realities push drive for West Coast coal export terminals Longview, Washington. (Editor's Note: This is the second blog in an ongoing series ...
  • Friday Finds: Fracking Causes Ice Cream Headaches
    Plus: Toxic ships, seed wars and dirty produce (Shutterstock) Extreme gas drilling fracks up ice cream ingredient Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, may cau ...
  • Unplugged: EnergyGuide Program Mysteries Unveiled
    In game of hide-and-seek online, consumers are winning When the Federal Trade Commission looked into energy efficiency labeling online, it found that retailer after retailer was failing to provide consumers with required informatio ...

Brave New Climate

  • Does energy efficiency reduce emissions and pe ...
    Guest Post by Graham Palmer. Graham is an industrial engineer and energy commenter from Melbourne. For another BNC post featuring his work, see Coal dependence and the renewables paradox. This post summarises the findings of a paper just published in the peer-reviewed journal Sustainability by G ...
  • Radio debate on nuclear power for addressing c ...
    Yesterday I debated nuclear energy and climate change on 891 ABC radio with Greens Senator Scott Ludlum, on the afternoon show hosted by Sonya Feldhoff. (It was a studio interview, so the audio quality is quite good.) We had a decent amount of time to cover off on issues, including answering cal ...
  • Notes from the US of A
    I’ve been travelling internationally for the last few weeks. It’s been a productive time – I’ve drafted a complete paper intended for The Breakthrough Journal (more on this in a later post), increased and enhanced my network of professional connections and friendships, go ...
  • Time for a reckoning, time for an apology
    Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a mathematician and computer programmer and is a member of Animal Liberation SA. His recently published book is CSIRO Perfidy. His previous article on BNC was: Dietary Guidelines Committee ignores climate change. What’s the difference between the fear ...
  • Small(ish) is beautiful
    This a new article written by Ben Heard and me in the SA Mines & Energy Journal (issue 23, pg 22-23), about the potential for small modular nuclear reactors. (Ben should get the primary authoring credit here — my job was to ‘enhance’ this one rather than lead the writing.) ...

Indigenist Opinion

  • .:Middle East Online::The State of Journalism ...
    .:Middle East Online::The State of Journalism and Media in the New Libya:.: Journalism and media witnessed huge expansion in Libya since the first spark in the February 17 revolution. There are now around 200 printed newspapers in Tripoli and Benghazi alone, and around 18 satellite channels thro ...
  • GUEST POST by @jazminchavez and @juliagrob: “L ...
    GUEST POST by @jazminchavez and @juliagrob: “Latinos: Turn Off Your TV, Co�o!”: GUEST POST BY Jazmin Chavez & Julia Ahumada Grob of "East WillyB" By the time of this publication, we should all be familiar with the recent controversy regarding ABC sitcom, “Work It,” in which Puerto Rican act ...
  • A Brief look at the Censorship of Human Rights ...
    China must abandon censorship | APNS Article 35 of China's constitution as adopted in 1982 clearly states that: "Citizens of the People's Republic of China enjoy freedom of speech, of the press, of assembly, of association, of procession and of demonstration." For 28 years this article has stood ...
  • The Republican Candidates' Race Card Strategy
    The Republican Candidates' Race Card Strategy [Black Star News Editorial] Republican presidential candidates Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum and front-runner Mitt Romney have all played the race-card to varying degrees in this election cycle, while Ron Paul's campaign is weighed down by the race b ...
  • The Billanthrope: Why I Wrote Koontown
    The Billanthrope: Why I Wrote Koontown: Black people are inherently inferior. This is not something you would often hear anybody say outright—if at all. That would be racist, and we live in a time when even devout racists get offended if you actually call them “racist.” The closest we tend to ge ...

Republicans are a Disease

  • A Republican Didn’t Like The Sign In My ...
    When I roll, I always have one of our RepublicansAreADisease.com sighs taped on the rear window of my car. I went to Office Depot to return some supplies yesterday and what appeared to be a Republican with his wife and teen age daughter were walking up to the car next to me. The Republican saw [...]
  • Michele Bachman Lying Again
    On Meet the Press Michele Bachman claims Republicans want women to make their own health care choices. Really? I guess unless their employer disagrees right Michele? Please media. The story is the fact that the Michele Bachman types get to lie repeatedly, and never have to pay a price. Time to d ...
  • Wolf Blitzer Owes Hillary Rosen An Apology
    Dear Wolf. You are an asshole. Why should anyone apologize for telling the truth? I know that you think that Marie Antoinette Romney is an “elite” and we are supposed to worship her while she tell us “poor people” how we should live our lives, and what matters to us? Hill ...
  • Marie “Ann”toinette Romney You Hav ...
    Dear Marie Antoinette Romney. Please sit down and shut up about economics. It is wonderful that your “family” has been so prosperous that you have never had to work for wages once in your whole life, unlike almost every other woman in America. What you don’t seem to understand ...
  • How Many Small Business Owners Did Newt Screw ...
    Come on Newt, who do you owe? You have millions upon millions in loot, and you can’t pay the people that you have contracts with and did business with? You have yours and you are screwing them out of theirs? You are sick man. I know you wanted to be prezzident so you could screw us [...]

Appalachia Rising

  • Donate to Appalachia Rising Legal Defense!
    Donate to Appalachia Rising Legal Defense On June 5th, 22 Appalachians were arrested in Washington DC, refusing to leave the offices of their Congresspeople until their representatives committed to taking steps toward ending mountaintop removal. You supported these men and … Continue readi ...
  • Judge Says Quaker Pro-Mountain Demonstrators & ...
    PHILADELPHIA – Two Quakers, Vint Deming (78) and Gail Newbold (62), were found guilty on Thursday of Defiant Trespass and Conspiracy to Commit Trespass following their arrest and trial for a nonviolent religious witness at PNC Bank’s Center City headquarters … Continue reading →
  • Donations Needed for Legal Support of 22 Arrested
    All 22 Mountain Heroes are out of jail as of late night on Wednesday. However, they will all be making a return trip to Washington DC in July for a court hearing. This trip will be expensive, as well as … Continue reading →
  • Shaving Their Heads in Mourning and Protest
    On Memorial Day, nearly 20 people shaved their heads in mourning and protest of mountaintop removal. Today, 5 more people joined them. 1. Shaving their heads in an act of mourning and protest of mountaintop removal., 2. Shaving their heads … Continue reading →
  • Video from Rep. Griffith (R-VA) Congressional ...
    West Virginian’s singing “Country Roads Take Me Home” as the police escort them out of Rep. Rahall’s office.

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  • Photo Essay: Volunteers celebrate rebuilding o ...
    International volunteers join Palestinians and Israelis to build ‘alternative facts on the ground’ in defiance of Israeli demolition policy. By Activestills Six months after Israeli bulldozers demolished the house of Salim and Arabiya Shawamreh, Palestinian workers, Israeli activists, and intern ...
  • MK Michael Ben-Ari rips up New Testament, thro ...
    According to the Israeli website NRG, MK Michael Ben-Ari (National Union) tore the New Testament to pieces and then threw it in the trash after the Bible was sent to all 120 members of Knesset by a man named Victor Kalish, who according to NRG specializes in publishing Christian religious texts. ...
  • Letter from Jerash, Jordan: A visit to the Gaz ...
    The writer shares snippets of life from the Palestinians living in the refugee camp in Jordan – from the longing for  a home unknown, to reservations about the ‘Arab Spring’  reaching them. Dispatch from Jerash.  By Munir Atalla Last month I worked at the Gaza Refugee Camp in J ...
  • Group of J14 activists to refuse their militar ...
    While thousands of J14 activists took to the streets and blocked main roads in major cities Sunday night, a group of reserve service soldiers is forming a new agenda of conscientious objection in protest of neo-liberalism and the lack of social justice. “I will no longer defend a state tha ...
  • ‘You cannot arrest this clown!’ On ...
    Last week’s Friday protest in the West Bank village of al-Ma’asara,  against the separation wall and the occupation, featured a group of special guests out to highlight the absurdity of all forms of repression. By Amitai Ben-Abba All guns are oversized, but this one seems especially ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

  • Heritage grant to share footprints of convict ...
    The yards of the Cascades Female Factory will be filled with the footprints of the convict buildings that housed the women who were once held and worked there, as part of a conservation and interpretation project funded by the Gillard Labor Government's Your Community Heritage program.
  • Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting 2012
    Australia today welcomes more than 300 delegates from among the 50 Antarctic nations to Hobart for the 35th Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting.
  • $469 million for NSW to deliver major rural w ...
    Federal Water Minister Tony Burke has approved $469 million in funding to support four major projects that will return an average of 80 billion litres of water to the system each year as part of the Basin-wide commitment to infrastructure projects.
  • Review of the Bureau of Meteorology's capacity
    The Australian Government has released the independent review of the Bureau of Meteorology's capacity to respond to future extreme weather and natural disaster events and to provide seasonal forecasting services.
  • Meeting with the Queensland Government
    The meeting with Deputy Premier Seeney and Minister Powell today was productive and is hopefully the first step in resolving the differences which have unfolded between the Commonwealth and Queensland over the past fortnight.

Matt Weidner Blog

  • ATTENTION SOLDIERS~! SERVICEMEMBERS CIVIL RELI ...
    One of the most critical elements of the Attorney General Fascism Mortgage Fraud Sellout Agreement, was the requirement that the servicers pay money to soldiers who they terrorized and abused, often while these soldiers were being shot at or were otherwise in harm’s way. But there is no wa ...
  • The LIBOR Scam, Not At All Subtle….Gone ...
    The “new” LIBOR scam has been round for quite some time….. Finally, we present suggestive evidence that the misreporting incentives are partially driven by member bank portfolio positions. We nd that several banks in the U.S. Libor panel have very large interest rate derivative ...
  • The Banks and Blatant Violations of The Servic ...
    Remember the 49 State AG Settlement? It was supposed to provide protections to the men and women who serve in uniform and protect our nation. The agreement provides that when the banks engage in improper practice and say, take a home from a soldier when they’re serving abroad getting shot ...
  • Mortgage Condemnation- The Pied Pipers of Wall ...
    From over at Naked Capitalism- A scheme proposed by a group called Mortgage Resolution Partners, which is being considered by San Bernardino, CA, to use the traditional power of eminent domain to condemn mortgages, was pretty certain to be a non-starter, so I’ve ignored it. But it’s gotten enoug ...
  • WATCHOUT! Misleading paperwork, bullying homeo ...
    A homeowner that receives the attached letter might be intimidated to think that they needed to leave the home within 20 days. They would reasonably think that the letter was put at the direction of a federal agency, HUD.  My question is, who authorized this activity? did HUD tell this law firm ...

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The Parallel Parliament

  • Perhaps George Washington Was Right
    The following is my recent Huffington Post piece on the use of negative ads and their unintended consequences. It was …Continue reading »
  • Humanity In An Image
    You can see why I was so affected immediately upon focusing your eyes on the picture. It’s from south Sudan …Continue reading »
  • While the Sun Is Above Us
    Over the years, a lot has been made of the work Jane and I have undertaken in Sudan. Repeatedly the …Continue reading »
  • Fox In The Henhouse
    My Huffington Post piece on Julian Fantino’s appointment as the new minister for the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) created …Continue reading »
  • Troubles Ahead For CIDA
    The following is my Huffington Post piece for today on the appointment of a new minister for the Canadian International …Continue reading »

Vaccine Awakening

  • Vaccine Wake Up Call for Parents: Your Childre ...
    by Barbara Loe Fisher Every mother has had the nightmare. We dream our child, who we love more than we thought we could love anyone, has been taken away by strangers and cannot be found. The cold fear rises up from our stomach into our throats as we search, endlessly, to find the child we would ...
  • The Health Liberty Revolution & Forced Vaccination
    “America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” – Abraham Lincoln by Barbara Loe Fisher In America today, there is an unprecedented assault on the human right to exercise informed consent to medical risk-taking ...
  • What You Should Know About Meningococcal Disea ...
    by Barbara Loe Fisher Today, pediatricians give American babies as many as 33 doses of 13 different vaccines by 12 months of age.1, 2 Now, federal public health officials are considering recommending that doctors give four more doses of a new vaccine – meningococcal vaccine – to babies between ...
  • Vaccines & Liberty: Let Freedom Ring
    by Barbara Loe Fisher My country, ’tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty,
Of thee I sing:
Land where my fathers died,
Land of the pilgrims’ pride,
From every mountain side,
Let freedom ring.[1] What is liberty? Webster’s Dictionary defines Liberty as “the quality or state of being free,” ...
  • In Memoriam: Infant Deaths & Vaccination
    by Barbara Loe Fisher Memorial Day is for remembering those, who have fought and died to defend America and preserve our civil liberties, including freedom of thought, speech, religious belief and conscience. So every Memorial Day I remember the children, who have died after receiving state man ...

2020 Science

  • Tenure track faculty positions in risk science ...
    Just thought I’d circulate this on the 2020 Science network – please feel free to pass on the information to anyone who might be interested. We have finally started the process of looking for two junior faculty to join the Risk Science Center at the University of Michigan School of P ...
  • Basic research and personal responsibility
    Dan Sarewitz has a rather provocative commentary in Nature this morning, where he suggests that proposals to increase basic research may be good politics, but questionable policy. The headline alone is probably enough to get some science-advocates’ blood boiling, whether they go on to read ...
  • Lost in the Maize
    Next week I am being “installed” here at the University of Michigan.  Not in the sense of installing a carpet – as one friend suggested – but in the sense of being installed as an endowed professor.  The Charles and Rita Gelman Risk Science Professor to be precise. To mar ...
  • Nanotechnology, climate and energy: over-heate ...
    Friends of the Earth have just released a new report challenging claims that nanotechnology will lead to greener, more energy-efficient technologies, lower-impact technologies. I’ve only had the chance to skim through the report so far, and so don’t have detailed comments on it.  But ...
  • Lost in the Maize
    Here’s something that keeps me awake at night (seriously): why, in this age of super-slick graphics and innovative multimedia resources, is it nearly impossible to give presentation that looks as good as they should? How come I can guarantee that when I give a presentation, the slides will ...

Reader Supported News

  • The Good of WikiLeaks
    Asan Bibi, 9, sits on a bench as burn cream is applied to her at Mirwais Hospital, Kandahar, Afghanistan. She, her sister and mother were badly burned when a US helicopter fired into their tent in the middle of the night, 10/13/09. (photo: Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)     Reader Supported ...
  • Race War in Arizona
    Three Points Arizona Minuteman Pete Petruccione, 88, checks out the range before nightfall with the unit from a $1,800 US Nightvision Starlight, 10/10/06. (photo: Gary Williams/Getty Images)     Reader Supported News Perspective n August 20, 1914, the Los Angeles Times ran an article title ...
  • Are We Replaying Iraq ... In Iran?
    Secretary of Defense Robert Gates attends graduation ceremonies at West Point, 05/23/09. (photo: Spencer Platt/Getty)     Reader Supported News Perspective n July 15, 2010, Time Magazine carried an article entitled, "An Attack on Iran: Back on the Table." According to the piece, the point ...
  • Rachel Takes Us Back to the Future
    Rachel Maddow on assignment in Afghanistan, 07/05/10. (photo: Rachel Maddow Show/MSNBC)     Reader Supported News Perspective very June, I leave my Northern California home and head south to our annual Gulf Coast family reunion. I might as well be an alien visiting from another planet. My ...
  • Corporate Election Machine Fires Up
    Future Supreme Court Justice John G. Roberts meets with George W. Bush in the Oval Office, 06/15/05. (photo: Eric Draper)     Reader Supported News Perspective The corporate financial steamroller is heading into the election arena much faster than many folks thought possible. I was one of ...

War Resisters League

  • Saying No To Tear Gas
    [An excerpt from an article of the same name by Frida Berrigan, originally published on Waging Nonviolence, June 22nd, 2012.] I have an assignment for you. Have you ever been tear gassed? I have not. It does not sound like … Continue reading →
  • Peace and Global Justice Groups: “End St ...
    On Father’s Day, June 17th , Peace and Global Justice groups walk together with New Yorkers in a Silent March to End Stop & Frisk We are a diverse gathering of groups working for global justice and peace around the … Continue reading →
  • On the Ground in Basra: An Interview with Hash ...
    Originally published on May 2nd, 2012 on Jadaliyya. by Ali Issa Iraqi unions demonstrated yesterday on May Day 2012 at a difficult historical moment. Still operating without a labor law that sanctions their organizing, and under the consolidation of Prime … Continue reading →
  • “You Can’t Take What’s All o ...
    To mark the upcoming NATO summit to be held in May 2012 in Chicago and the simultaneous G8 summit to be held in Camp David, Maryland, War Resisters League and the Grassroots Global Justice Alliance release a new popular education … Continue reading →
  • كفى دموعا!
    كفى دموعا! بمناسبة يوم الارض الفلسطيني 2012, تُنشر النسخة العربية للكاريكاتير”كفى دموعا!” الذي يربط حركات للتغير حول العالم من خلال تحليل من ابرز الاسلحة التي تُستدخدم ضدها: الغاز المسيّل للدموع. بشكل سهل التناول, يسمّي “كفى دموعا!” الشركات التي تربح من … Continue r ...

Center for a Livable Future

  • Important letter to House Agriculture Committee
    The House Agriculture Committee began marking up the farm bill this morning. As we’ve described in past posts, this bill has significant implications for public health. CLF sent the letter (below) to the House Agriculture Committee, emphasizing important changes needed in the bill in order ...
  • Public Health Relies on Environmental Stewards ...
    Dan Glickman says that we revere the farmer, and I agree. Farmers know that conservation is critical to their success in the long term, and we all know that conservation is critical to human health. This month, as the House debates the farm bill, we’ll see how our representatives in Congress rea ...
  • Meatless Monday and Meat Without Drugs
    In a concise, accurate, and artful video directed by Robert Kenner (director of Food, Inc.) in consultation with CLF, the Meat without Drugs campaign highlights how industrial farming practices facilitate the development of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, and the threats that these bacteria pose ...
  • Book aims to fast-track transition to sustaina ...
    What progress has the U.S. made in the area of sustainable development? What are the barriers to further progress? How do we overcome them?
  • Farm Bill Considerations: The Case for Support ...
    What’s better than a government program that improves the health of SNAP participants, while simultaneously driving local economic activity and addressing health care costs?

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Consumerist

  • Lenovo Sees Imaginary Address Discrepancy, Won ...
    Lenovo's ordering system is set up to combat fraud. It's a little too good at its job, though, and is currently combating John's perfectly legit order of a new Thinkpad. What's wrong with his address? Nothing, according to his bank. But Lenovo insists that his information is wrong and they can't ...
  • AN UPDATE ON CONSUMERIST SECURITY
    As described in yesterday's post, the Consumerist has been dealing with security issues that forced us to take the site down twice in the past week. Since the last episode ended Saturday night, we have taken certain steps that we believe address the problems we experienced. Because of the nature ...
  • FDA Approves First Pill For Preventing HIV Inf ...
    The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced a major first today, approving Truvada, a drug intended to prevent HIV infections for people at high-risk of contracting it. It's the first pill approved to reduce the likelihood of getting HIV for people having sex with infected individuals. Taken ...
  • Fiat Wants You To Make A Nice Steaming Hot Esp ...
    Just think of  those times you actually had to stop and buy hot coffee to later spill all over your lap in the car. That's the worst, which is why Fiat is introducing espresso makers in its 500L model, so you can make your own hot beverage in the comfort of your vehicle, to then [...]
  • Sprint Customers In Texas & Georgia May Now Ha ...
    With Verizon already touting its 4G LTE roll-out and AT&T claiming that LTE is currently available in 47 markets around the country, third-place wireless competitor Sprint needs to do everything it can to compete. Over the weekend, the company finally flipped the switch on its LTE network, ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • Vast FDA Surveillance Program Tracked Employee ...
    RT: Government Is Tightening Its Grip on Whistleblowers Summary: The Food and Drug Administration is under fire for its major surveillance operation of its own employees. An explosive article in the New York Times this past Sunday revealed that the agency was monitorin ...
  • FDAgate Worsens: FDA Attorneys "Authorized" Spying
    The Washington Post expanded on this weekend's blockbuster New York Times article revealing the FDA's invasive surveillance on employees, reporters, and congressional staffers in an attempt to target several scientist-whistleblowers who raised concerns about ex ...
  • Olympic Whistleblower Warns of Lax Security: D ...
    The Week UK: G4S Whistleblower – 50 Percent Chance of Olympics Bomb Summary: An expert who was employed by the 2012 London Olympics to train security staff has alleged that guards have missed mock bombs and weapons and says there is a “50 percent chance” of a bomb being carried into an Ol ...
  • A Microfinance Whistleblower Tells the Painful ...
    *Note: GAP Legal Director Tom Devine and Confessions of a Microfinance Heretic author High Sinclair will be speaking tomorrow (Friday, July 13) at Politics and Prose. Both Confessions and Devine's book The Corporate Whistleblower's Survival Guide: A Handbook for Committing the Truth&nb ...
  • Hip Hop Artist Pharrell Names EP 'Pink Slime': ...
    Hip Hop Artist Pharrell Names EP 'Pink Slime' After Ammoniated Beef Filler Summary: Hip hop singer and record producer Pharrell Williams titled his new record "Pink Slime" after the controversial ammoniated beef product. According to Pharrell's collaborator on the record, rapper Mac Mille ...

UK Progressive

  • Denis Has Gone Walkabout….
    by Bob Thanks for your support of UK Progressive Magazine. We’re on holiday until the 23rd. Boss is in China and I’m in charge. Problem is this opposable thumbs thing and, as you can see, I can’t be bothered. So I’m watching the lot of you, staring at the computer to make ...
  • FBI Out to Lure Muslims into “Terror” Plots
    By Sherwood Ross Nearly every major post-9/11 terrorism-related prosecution has involved a sting operation at the center of which is a government informant, “The Nation” magazine reports. The publication cites the findings of the Center on National Security at Fordham Law School. The ...
  • Mystery After the Health Care Ruling: Which St ...
    by Charles Ornstein, ProPublica For many people without insurance, a key question raised bythe Supreme Court’s decision today to uphold the Affordable Care Act is whether states will decline to participate in the law’s big Medicaid expansion. Although the court upheld the law’s ...
  • The Elite Coup is Complete (Part 2)
    by Robert Hunziker The thirty-year bloodless coup, taking over America, conducted by the political, academic, and financial elite is a fait accompli as evidenced by the failure to charge anybody for the horrendous, and well documented, criminality behind America’s housing/financial bust of 2008 ...
  • Hate Crimes Against US Muslims Are on the Rise ...
    By Sherwood Ross Muslims may make up fewer than one percent of the U.S. population but they were nearly 13 percent of victims of religious-based hate crimes in 2010, “The Nation” magazine reports (July 2nd). “These crimes include intimidation, burglary, arson, vandalism, and aggravated assault,” ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • Carbon prices fall to new record low — $ ...
    So much for that global “free” market. Scott the trader writes to explain that the EU “CER” credits are the ones people can buy and exchange for Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) but they have sunk to $4. The more expensive $9 EUA units that most commentators mention ...
  • Topher is doing another video — just hou ...
    Topher did the brilliant “Forbidden History” video, which has hit 50,000 views and he wants to make two more to remind people of the importance of free speech. There are only hours to help him to reach the tally. Pledges are only processed if the total hits $35k and I hear that there ...
  • BOMs new data set, ACORN, so bad it should be ...
    When independent auditors found errors, gaps and deep questions about the HQ (High Quality) dataset for the official record of Australian temperatures, the BOM responded by producing a completely new set called ACORN in March 2012. But this set is also plagued with errors. One of the independen ...
  • Charles Sturt’s time: so hot that thermo ...
    Australia’s hottest day? Not 2010, but 1828 at a blistering 53.9 °C Back before man-made climate change was frying Australia, when CO2 was around 300ppm, the continent savoured an ideal preindustrial climate, right? (This is the kind of climate we are spending $10bn per annum to get back too?) W ...
  • Monckton: The Counter-strategies to logic deni ...
    Two biology and environmental academics from Schenactady and Rensselaer Polytech New York were apparently concerned that their young prodigy might be lost from the religion of global warming (and misled by “Deniers”) so they put together together a guide to help others facing the ons ...

ReNew America

  • Obamacare, the Supremes, Dickens, and the bumb ...
    (Wes Vernon, RA analyst) - No less a power than the highest court in the land has stumbled into the ultimate definition of Obamacare, and in the process has finally exposed the decades-long downslide of the political class's standards for honesty. It is up to us to try to reverse that...
  • From preserving liberty to destroying it
    (Alan Keyes) - When the U.S. Supreme Court announced its Obamacare decision, many conservatives professed to be shocked, even stunned, to hear that G.W. Bush appointee John Roberts wrote the decision in which he and the Supreme Court's anti-constitutional leftists upheld the individual mandate p ...
  • Building the free-market case against big business
    (Timothy P. Carney) - The most dangerous enemies of capitalism today are capitalists. This is becoming clearer every day to people committed to free markets. The conservative and libertarian grassroots came to deeply distrust big business after the Wall Street bailouts and Obama's stimulus and h ...
  • New hope for life worldwide
    (Janice Shaw Crouse) - During discouraging times, pro-lifers remind themselves that William Wilberforce worked for two decades before he began to change hearts and minds and end 19th-century slavery in Great Britain. In efforts lasting twice as long, pro-life activists are just now beginning to ...
  • Formal complaint seeks disbarment of Eric Hold ...
    (Daily Caller) - Attorney General Eric Holder could lose his license to practice law in the District of Columbia, or face some other penalty from the D.C. Bar, now that he has been found in criminal and civil contempt of Congress...

Truth Offering

  • The False Flag Cyber Attack Takedown of the In ...
    Here are some of today's top shock headlines: "Army of hackers targets the Swedish government, Sarah Palin and credit card giants in WikiLeaks 'Operation: Payback'" - The Daily Mail "Hackers Rise for WikiLeaks" - Wall Street Journal "WikiLeaks backers hit MasterCard and Visa in cyberstrike" - R ...
  • S. 510: The Death of Food Freedom Act
    In the world of liberty lovers and food freedom fighters, there's been a ton of attention lately on Senate bill S.510 -- the deceitfully-named, "Food Safety Modernization Act [1]." But in the mainstream media, there's been but a whimper; a pathetic trickle of occasional, fleeting and understated ...
  • Politicians and the Voting Public: A Toxic Rel ...
    At TruthOffering.com, we've written much about what's known as the Liberty to Tyranny cycle. The reason we've focused so much attention on this cycle is that we believe in it completely. That is to say, since every civilization has followed this cycle's projection, it's reasonable to suspect the ...
  • Education v. Conditioning: Wundt, Rockefeller ...
    John D. Rockefeller, Sr. / Wilhelm WundtSince reading "the deliberate dumbing down of america" by Charlotte Iserbyt, I've been trying to find other people out there who have also noticed the ruining of education in the United States. To be honest, it's hard to find information on this subject ou ...
  • TruthOffering's Matt Gordon on LA Talk Live's ...
    Have a listen to Matt Gordon from TruthOffering.com chatting with Hip-hop connoisseur, D-Bracks, on LA Talk Live. Topics range from economics and politics to international banksters and chemtrails. Be sure to drop a comment and let us know what you think of Matt's perspective:

2012 Blog

  • Expert Opinion #4: Bob Waxman
    Recently I reached out to some of the most-read authors in the 2012 space, regardless of whether they agree with my doom’n'gloom mentality. I simply asked for a brief overview of what they think will happen in 2012 (if anything), and optionally, where they will be on Dec 21. Here’s t ...
  • Newt Gingrich on Vulnerable Power Grid
    Newt Gingrich, a former speaker of the House, has written an opinion piece for the Washington Post. It’s a great reminder of how perilous modern society can be: Callista and I live in the Virginia suburbs of Washington, and, like many in the region, we lost power in the recent storms. The  ...
  • Expert Opinion #3: John Lash
    Recently I reached out to some of the most-read authors in the 2012 space, regardless of whether they agree with my doom’n'gloom mentality. I simply asked for a brief overview of what they think will happen in 2012 (if anything), and optionally, where they will be on Dec 21. Next up is Joh ...
  • Expert Opinion #2: Dr. Christine Page
    Recently I reached out to some of the most-read authors in the 2012 space, regardless of whether they agree with my doom’n'gloom mentality. I simply asked for a brief overview of what they think will happen in 2012 (if anything), and optionally, where they will be on Dec 21. Next up is Dr. ...
  • Expert Opinion #1: Robert Sitler
    Recently I reached out to some of the most-read authors in the 2012 space, regardless of whether they agree with my doom’n'gloom mentality. I simply asked for a brief overview of what they think will happen in 2012 (if anything), and optionally, where they will be on Dec 21. First up, I&#8 ...

Facing South

  • Will the Duke Energy scandal hurt the Democrat ...
    The Democratic Party tied its upcoming convention's fortunes to Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers, now embroiled in a scandal over an abrupt CEO switch following the company's merger with Progress Energy. What will the controversy mean for the party in the upcoming election? read more
  • Tennessee program to provide photo IDs missing ...
    To quell criticism of the state's new voter ID law, Tennessee lawmakers offered to provide free photo IDs to those without one. But the state's own data shows that the program is reaching only a fraction of voters who will need it to vote this fall. read more
  • Mexican drug cartels and the U.S. banking industry
    Before its purchase by Wells Fargo, North Carolina-based Wachovia laundered over $378 billion for illegal drug organizations -- and paid just $160 million in fines. It's part of a broader and disturbing trend in the U.S. banking industry. read more
  • The big money behind the assault against sea l ...
    A controversial bill that would block North Carolina agencies from considering the science of sea level rise in making planning decisions has gotten a lot of national attention -- but what hasn't gotten much scrutiny are the powerful development interests behind the legislation. read more
  • Southern states show biggest job gains
    The recent jobs report showed the economy continues to struggle. Many of the states that have seen the biggest job gains are in the South -- but that likely won't help Obama much in November. read more

One News Page

  • Stephen Covey, pioneer of the self-help book, dies
    Stephen Covey, who arguably single handedly turned self-help books into a credible and profitable genre in publishing, died on 16 July from complications that followed a bike accident in April. Reported by Firstpost 58 minutes ago
  • Queen of country music, Kitty Wells, dies at 92
    Kitty Wells, the 'Queen of Country Music,' died on Tuesday morning at her home in Nashville surrounded by family members, of complications from a stroke. She was 92. Reported by Firstpost 2 hours ago
  • Russian spacecraft docks with ISS, Sunita Will ...
    Record-setting Indian-American cosmonaut Sunita Williams along with two other astronauts today docked their Russian spacecraft at the International Space Station for a four-month stay. 46-year-old ... Related Stories Reported by NDTV.com 2 hours ago
  • Anna Hazare, Ramdev attack government on corru ...
    Ahead of their proposed protests in Delhi, Anna Hazare and yoga guru Ramdev on Tuesday launched an attack on the UPA government accusing it of not showing enough resolve in tackling corruption and bringing back blackmoney stashed away abroad. Reported by IndiaTimes 2 hours ago
  • Darkness to light: Deep Purple keyboardist Jon ...
    Deep Purple's keyboardist, Jon Lord, who co-wrote some of the band's most famous tunes including 'Smoke on the Water' passed away at age 71. Reported by Firstpost 2 hours ago

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • NATO Preparing Vast Disinformation Campaign
    Syrians wanting to watch their national TV stations will probably see them replaced on their screens by TV programs created by the CIA. Studio-shot images will show massacres that are blamed on the Syrian Government, people demonstrating, ministers and generals resigning from their posts, Presid ...
  • The SCO 2012 Shanghai Summit – on the Way to N ...
    The 12th Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit took place in Beijing on June 6-7, 2012. The annual event brought together the heads of states to review and gauge the importance of the SCO in global affairs. China hosted the summit for the third time since its inception. The organization ...
  • Turkey: Taking a Risk With the U.S. In Syria
    In late 2011 Frederic C. Hof, one of the State Department`s point man on Syrian policy, equaled the Assad regime to ‘a dead man walking’. At the end of December, 2011, Hof joined a special secret committee set up by the Obama administration to discuss possible scenarios of Syrian intervention. T ...
  • Antidote to Fundamentalism and Terrorism
    In international politics, relations of trade and commerce among nations are known, but what about spiritual cooperation? This is in fact the central call of religious leaders at Astana in Kazakhstan. While speaking at the 4th Conference of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions, held on 30t ...
  • Balochistan: Crossroads of Proxy War
    The current unrest in Balochistan centers around forced disappearances, kidnappings, targeted killings, assassinations and terrorism. However, these are merely the tactics of a much broader, more geopolitically complex war in which the United States and its Western allies are engaged. Though see ...

BlogHer

  • Stephanie O'Dea Named a Top Fifty Food Blogger ...
    Stephanie O'Dea (pictured below), blogger at A Year of Slow Cooking was named #3 blog in Cision's Top 50 Food Blogs. Ariana Mullins of And Here We Are had her story about becoming an expat family featured at Expat Focus. Jane Perdue of WomenBIG had a post featured on Smartbrief. ...
  • Four Years Later
    Exactly four years ago today, I wrote my first post for BlogHer. In that first column, I wrote about the kind of father and husband Barack is for the girls and me. I wrote about how he would fight to build an economy that rewards hard work and responsibility, ensures a good education for all our ...
  • DIY Ways to Celebrate the Olympics
    [Editor's Note: How are you going to celebrate the Olympics? Don’t tell me you are just going to pop a bag of popcorn and roll up in front of the TV. The folks over at Ucreate think you should be hosting elaborate parties, baking gold medal cookies and crafting Olympic rings artwork with th ...
  • No Matter How Long It's Been, Never Stop Dating
    Editor's Note: It's easy to get so caught up with the daily grind and forget how important it is to spend time with our partners, every day. In this post at The Shine Project, Ashley brainstorms on her favorite date ideas and sits her hubby down to share why making time for dates is important. H ...
  • So You Think You Can Dance Recap: The Top 20 F ...
    Yay! The Voice may be rising in my esteem, but this week saw the serious kick-off of what is my favorite talent reality show: So You Think You Can Dance. Why do I likee so much? Because these kids are super-talented? Because there is a constant variety of expression through different styles of ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • 6 Evidence-Based Ways To Burn Belly Fat AND Ex ...
    The ongoing battle of the bulge, while once considered primarily a matter of vanity, may actually be one of the best ways to reduce your risk of dying from a multitude of causes (i.e. all-cause ...
  • The Remarkable Healing Properties of Pumpkin Seed
    Pumpkin seeds, like all edible seeds, pack an immense nutritional and medicinal punch. After all, they contain future worlds within their compact structure. As Emerson said, “the creation of a thousand forests is within one acorn.” In ...
  • Gene mutation defends against Alzheimer’s disease
    Almost 30 million people live with Alzheimer’s disease worldwide, a staggering health-care burden that is expected to quadruple by 2050. Yet doctors can offer no effective treatment, and scientists have not been able definitively to ...
  • Unhealthiness vs Disease
    There are many so called diseases, that are actually not ‘diseases’, they are actually serious ‘unhealthiness’.  We need to distinguish between unhealthiness and disease. What’s the difference?  In the posts Concepts of Illness and Disease, andHealthiness and ...
  • Chronic Pain Is Determined By Emotions Scienti ...
    The emotional state of the brain can explain why different individuals do not respond the same way to similar injuries, say scientists. Some recover fully while others remain in constant pain. Brain scan studies showed for the ...

Live News Wire

  • Editorial: As The Country Mourned, Tucson Need ...
    Those who criticized the reaction of the crowd at Wednesday night's memorial have it ingrained that a perfect memorial is one with candles, flowers and tears. The citizens of Tucson and the American people have mourned for five days. Wednesday's event was not a time to mourn some more. It was a ...
  • Police Made Visits To Loughner Home Before Sho ...
    The Tucson, Arizona family home of 22-year-old Jared Loughner had been visited by authorities before the shooting of a congresswoman and 18 others last Saturday, new information by the New York Times revealed Wednesday. It's unclear what the visits were about or what prompted the call to author ...
  • Criminal Charges Filed Against Congresswoman’s ...
    Newly-released court documents offer a glimpse into the motive behind Jared Loughner's attempted assassination of Tucson Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords on Saturday. Recovered from Loughner's home was a letter addressed to Jared Loughner from Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. Giffords mailed a ...
  • “Unbelievable Tragedy:” Congresswoman Shot By ...
    At least fifteen gunshots rang out shortly after 10:10am Arizona Time Saturday, bullets fatally striking a Federal Judge and injuring a prominent Congresswoman. Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) of Arizona's Eighth District was wounded at a public meet-and-greet event outside a grocery s ...
  • Queensland Facing Flood Of “Biblical” Proportions
    The worst floods in 50 years to hit Queensland, Australia are being described as nothing short of Biblical. More than 1,000 people have been evacuated, though officials say as the floodwaters get worse, as many as 4,000 residents could be asked to vacate their homes and businesses later this we ...

Coal Tattoo

  • Sen. Rockefeller: ‘I’ve just had i ...
    Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., was making the rounds in West Virginia last week, and as you can imagine he was being asked a lot of questions about his recent speech calling out our state’s mining industry for its “war on coal” rhetoric against President Obama. The Gazette&#821 ...
  • New suit target more Alpha selenium water poll ...
    This just in from the Sierra Club and other groups: Today, a coalition of citizen and environmental groups took action to stop pollution coming from 9 different coal mining facilities owned by subsidiaries of Alpha Natural Resources. The mines, located in Logan, McDowell, Boone, and Kanawha coun ...
  • NPR gets it right on ‘what’s killi ...
    Two weeks ago, I wrote about how the good people at NPR had missed the mark in a piece about the presidential election and the decline of coal here in West Virginia. I’m glad to say that a trio of NPR pieces this weekend, by All Things Considered’s weekend host, Guy Raz, provided a m ...
  • Friday roundup, July 13, 2012
    A miner sings during the coal miners march to the Minister of Industry building in Madrid, Wednesday, July 11, 2012. Coal miners angered by cuts in subsidies converged on Madrid Tuesday for protest rallies, after walking nearly three weeks under a blazing sun from the pits where they eke out a l ...
  • Black lung is back: Where is the outrage?
    A marcher holds a grim message during a black lung rally. Photographer and date unknown, courtesy of West Virginia and Regional History Collection, West Virginia University Libraries. Earlier this week, when I heard that Sen. Joe Manchin was heading to the floor for what his office said would be ...

Daniel Miessler

  • The Vimium Chrome Extension
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  • Interview Shortcuts | JackG
    I’m starting to realize I rely heavily on a set of heuristics to determine if someone is likely to be in the 10% group. These don’t involve asking the interviewee about his life goals and then staring deeply into his eyes as he answers. They are simple shortcuts–usually yes/no questions. Hackers ...
  • Preparing to Build Burp Extensions | Console C ...
    This quick blog post will document getting started with developing Burp extensions using java. Burp provides interfaces for developers to hook into the Burp application and extend the application or integrate with other tools, this interface is documented on the following site - http://port ...
  • Fewer Nicer Things | Allen Tucker
    Overpaying means getting exactly what you need, often custom made to your specs, not some imaginary average person. At the end of the day you end up with a very few items that you deeply love, rather than a house stuffed with junk that is worthless to you a year later.  Life is simpler. via ...
  • Hitchens Speaking About Death Towards the End ...
    via youtube.com Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related Content‪Hitchens on the Catholic ChurchNeil deGrasse Tyson on the Death of American DreamsHow Not to Do a PresentationSoul Food | Key & Peele‘The Star Wars That I Used To Know’

Fitwatch

  • A call to kettle FIT and Police Liaison in Bri ...
    Fitwatch are heading to the Smash EDO demo in Brighton on Monday 16th July, and we'd love you to join us. Smash EDO protests have historically been heavily hit by snoopers from the FIT, Police Liaison and the National Domestic Extremism Unit. These are all dangerous, vindictive and untrustworthy ...
  • Sussex police unleash new weapon – crowd ...
    Sussex police have recently started to use new forms of repressive tactics for policing demonstrations. They seem to have taken a break from head cracking to trial what they have termed 'Police Liaison Officers' or PLOs at the recent Smash EDO demonstration on June 4th. This may not be simply a ...
  • A call to FITWATCH at Smash EDO demo, Monday 4 ...
    The high court has decided that it is perfectly ok for the cops to gather as much intel about anyone they like who is in any way connected to the Smash EDO campaign - or any other that uses direct action or civil disobedience. Yesterday they announced that the domestic extremism unit, in holding ...
  • FITwatch beneFIT: Weds 30th May.
    Come and join us in one of South London's finest boozers and live music venues, and help us raise some much-needed money! See you there. FW Crew x
  • N9 plain clothes cops identified
    As avid readers of the comments pages of this blog and indymedia will know, two of the plain clothes cops who terrorised and dragged people out of the N9 student demo have now been identified. The comments that were posted are re-posted in full below. PC Chris Healey and PC Giles Dainty, both wo ...

Worldwide Hippies

  • Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Tuesday
    Grocery prices headed higher as drought lingers Shoppers across the country should stand up and take notice of the Midwestern drought that has already hurt supplies of corn and soybeans. The drought will lead to higher supermarket prices for everything from milk to meat. How high will depend on ...
  • When rape jokes aren’t funny
    By Julie Burton and Michelle Kinsey Bruns Editor’s note: Julie Burton is president of the Women’s Media Center. Michelle Kinsey Bruns is online manager for the Women’s Media Center. Both are longtime feminist activists and organizers. (CNN) — When the comedian Daniel Tosh ...
  • Fracking
    By Cindi Silva,Worldwide Hippies/CJE While awake dreams etch into your brain the subversion of natural order something to strive for cast aside or regain while asleep most are easily forgotten others chilling heart beating faster iv drips filled with coffee after – yet too much awake cause ...
  • SAMs for Uncle Sam
    From the Book RADICAL PEACE: People Refusing War By William T. Hathaway Merna al-Marjan is a young Iraqi who is currently in Germany studying European history. We talked in her dormitory room, a spartan but functional cubicle in a building that embodies a hopeful change in European history: it w ...
  • The Mitt’s Hitting The Fan
    By Sherry Pasquarello,Worldwide Hippies/CJE Yes, it does look that way, but I never take much for granted. Especially when it comes to the voting public! I can say this, the pubs and clubs and diners are strangely quiet when it comes to politics. Frankly I couldn’t understand how anyone other th ...

reference frame

  • Why the Standard Model isn't the whole story
    The Standard Model is an impressive achievement of science. Numerous anti-scientific crackpots – all those Shmoits Lite, not to mention the Hardcore Shmoits themselves – often misrepresent the relationship between top phenomenologists and theorists and the Standard Model. Competent ...
  • Diversity of observables in quantum mechanics
    A question at the Physics Stack Exchange has reminded me about a philosophical preconception that "helps" to prevent many people – including people such as Brian Greene – from appreciating and understanding the foundations of quantum mechanics and the wonderful ways in which they radically di ...
  • Poincaré disk
    Almost everyone knows the sphere. However, the fame of a close cousin of the spherical geometry, the hyperbolic geometry, is much more limited. How many people know what is the Poincaré disk, for example? Using the politically correct speech, people are discriminating against geometries ...
  • 53rd IMO: Problem 2
    The 53rd International Mathematical Olympiad is taking place in Mar del Plata, Argentina, the same country in which Prof Paul Frampton is still expecting to be freed. He's had a cold ten times in 2012 but already published 5 peer-reviewed papers. Check some words from Paul. Mar del ...
  • Sheldon Glashow on apocalypse
    Promoting hysteria during a visit of the skeptical nation of Czechia Nobel laureate Sheldon Glashow whom I know pretty well from various parties (and from Sidneyfest where I took his picture used at Wikipedia: the fingers standing on the shoulder of the giant belong to Kenneth Lane) – a ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • I have been asked to sell this domain name – Y ...
    $100,000.27 No negotiations. Send to my PayPal account at chiefape@gmail.com. Simple as that. Too much money? Too bad. It is a take it or leave it offer. Quit bugging me! TMA Related posts: Tatumba.com home of The Mad Ape – Radio Spot A few weeks ago I won a significant amount of... Relat ...
  • End of the Road – How Money Became Worthless – ...
    The new film “End Of The Road” has just been released for public viewing, featuring GoldSilver.com CEO Mike Maloney alongside Peter Schiff, Jim Rickards, Jim Puplava, James Turk, Eric Sprott and more. This post is courtesy of Robbie the Robot Gold American Eagle Fractional Bullion Co ...
  • HOW TO Defeat The System – Documentary Film
    HELP MAKE THIS GO VIRAL! How To Defeat The System is Fabian4Liberty’s latest micro documentary film. With the world in crisis and hundreds of talking heads highlighting the problems, what exactly are the solutions? In this micro documentary LIBERTARIAN ACTIVIST Fabian4Liberty covers concre ...
  • FPS Russia:The 40mm Machine Gun – Buy it here
      22″ Rapid Fire Machine Gun with Lights & Sound High quality battery operated machine gun with lights and blasting sounds! Feel the action when you pull the trigger. The barrel with bayonet moves back and forth thrusting. The bullet belt revolves when firing. This awesome machine ...
  • Bank of America Attacked SGT Report
    e-mail Bank of America and ask them, is this how they treat AMERICANS? abuse@bankofamerica.com SGTreport.com: Someone at Bank of America Doesn’t Like SGTreport http://sgtreport.com/2011/09/someone-at-bank-of-america-doesnt-like-sgtreport/ Cass Sunstein’s Obama Spine-Chilling Proposal ...

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

  • Can't Stop the Big Mo
    Healthy spending and productivity add up to some good stock buys, says S&P's Kenneth Shea. Plus: His formula for a diversified portfolio
  • Higher Gas Tax? Smart Move
    Raising it to 50 cents or $1 per gallon would push conservation and send a signal to America's enemies. It's the surest way to cut oil dependence
  • Merck: More Agony from Its Painkiller
    The costly Vioxx verdict makes its plan to take on each claim individually more difficult. But a big settlement is no easy cure, either
  • No Lull in the Airlines' Headwinds
    The industry isn't doing as badly as it was, but that's not saying much, according to S&P's Philip Baggaley
  • At Motorola, "a Hop in Everybody's Step"
    CEO Ed Zander admits he hasn't checked every box on his to-do list. But he's happy to take credit for kick-starting innovation

Enviroblog

  • BPA substitute found on store receipts
    By Paul Pestano, EWG research analyst Nearly two years after EWG published a study documenting high concentrations of the toxic plastics chemical bisphenol A in cash register receipts, scientists are finding that manufacturers have substituted bisphenol... [[ This is a content summary only. ...
  • Study shows fracking can pollute
    By Alex Formuzis, VP for Media Relations A new water quality study near gas drilling operations in northeastern Pennsylvania counters natural gas industry claims that gas and hydraulic fracturing chemicals can't seep into the drinking water of nearby... [[ This is a content summary only. Vi ...
  • Hill politics churns small streams
    By T.J. Pepping, EWG Safe Drinking Water Intern Are smaller, upstream water bodies such as intermittent streams covered by the federal Clean Water Act? This is not an insignificant question: the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has determined that... [[ This is a content summary only. V ...
  • Pick the best sunscreen for kids
    By Sonya Lunder, EWG Senior Analyst I have happy memories of long summer days spent outdoors, largely unencumbered by sun hats, sunglasses and sunscreen. Now we know that one blistering burn during childhood can increase a child's risk of developing... [[ This is a content summary only. Vis ...
  • EWG's 2012 Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Pr ...
    Well, as we do each year, EWG released (on June 19) the latest Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Produce and as we suspected, eaters around the country are still concerned about high levels of toxic pesticide residue on their fruits... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for ...

Quick Hits

  • More Teachers Being Replaced By Technology
    The neoliberal wetdream coming to fruition. From Fast Company: Districts all over are experimenting with teacher-less computer labs and green-lighting entire classrooms of adult-supervised children exploring the Internet--an Android powered tablet designed specifically for students. Teachers' u ...
  • Food costs at record levels, likely to go higher
    MANILA/MILAN (Reuters) - World food prices hit a record in January and recent catastrophic weather around the globe could put yet more pressure on the cost of food, an issue that has already helped spark protests across the Middle East. Up for the seventh month in a row, the closely watched Food ...
  • Shell makes $2,208,480 (£1.6m) an hour, [Clue ...
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/busi...   The Guardian in Britain says calmly:Shell stoked up the heated debate about the high cost of fuel on the forecourt today after reporting it made profits of nearly £1.6m an hour over the last three months.A leading member of the road lobby said moto ...
  • Gallup Helps Explain Egyptian/Tunisia Uprisings
    Wellbeing in Egypt and Tunisia decreased significantly over the past few years, even as GDP increased. In Egypt, where demonstrations have prompted President Hosni Mubarak to give up power after elections this fall, the percentage of people "thriving" fell by 18 percentage points since 2005. In ...
  • Wallace Shawn: Are You Smarter Than Thomas Jef ...
    The Grand Nagus speaks! At Tom Dispatch.com.

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Surprise flooding hit Troms hard
    Residents of Troms County in northern Norway were mopping up on Monday after surprise flooding washed out roads, threatened bridges and forced evacuation of several homes. Twice as much rain fell over the weekend than what state meteorologists had predicted. Hardest hit was Målselv township, whe ...
  • Another boat builder bails out
    Norwegian boat builder Windy Boats has become the latest Scandinavian manufacturer of pleasure craft to move production abroad, to combat high costs. Around 50 persons will lose their jobs in the southern coastal city of Arendal when production moves to Poland and Sweden. “When it costs th ...
  • Canadian fund buys Helly Hansen
    The longtime Norwegian maker of stormy weather gear that later evolved into high fashion, Helly Hansen, has been sold for around NOK 1.5 billion to the Ontario Teacher’s Pension Plan in a move that nets handsome gains for its investors and several top executives. The Norwegian executives, ...
  • Norway best place for mothers
    Norway has topped another list, this time as the best country in the world for mothers. The list, compiled by the international humanitarian group Save the Children, cited such factors as the danger of dying during childbirth, the number of women using modern contraception and the number of birt ...
  • Road toll system baffles visitors
    Thousands of drivers of foreign-registered vehicles on Norwegian roads aren’t paying road tolls, not necessarily because they’re trying to cheat the system, but because they don’t understand how the automatic toll system works. Some end up getting a surprise bill in the mail af ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • A Permaculture Consultancy in Ethiopia
    Two hundred kilometers south of Addis we turn left at a little town called Achamo, and dive off the tarmac into a dusty, bumpy adventure somewhere in the middle of nowhere in the green rolling steppes of the south Ethiopian countryside. This is my first foray into Hadiyya country. We’ve ju ...
  • PDC with Geoff Lawton Held in Al Jawfa, Dead S ...
    The new Jordan Valley Permaculture Project (left foreground) aka ‘Greening the Desert – the Sequel’, September 2011 Photo © Craig Mackintosh Do you think it’s time to look at the world from a different perspective? Do you know what the problems facing humanity ...
  • For Those Who Love Life
    The people cutting open bluefin tuna nets are heroes by George Monbiot: journalist, author, academic and environmental and political activist, United Kingdom. One of the purposes of government is to protect public goods threatened by the self-interest of unscrupulous people or corporation ...
  • The Rise and Fall and Rise of Great Public Spaces
    Why we need parks, streetlife, squares, markets, trails, community gardens and other hang-outs more than ever. by Jay Walljasper, On the Commons All photographs © Craig Mackintosh It’s a dark and wintry night in Copenhagen, and the streets are bustling. The temperature stands ...
  • Permaculture, a Step by Step Change
    To me, the simple idea of changing from an energy guzzling, water polluting, fertilizer junkie to a full ecological ‘Permie’ was just bogus. So far, it has proven impossible to make the full change in the last three years. I want to share with you some of my thoughts, ideas and frus ...

Pointman's

  • Is climate science just a belief?
    The alarmists in the climate debate have what they think of as this magic ace of trumps card, called peer review. If they actually knew something about the peer review process, perhaps they’d realise it isn’t a guarantee of anything much. It really isn’t. In brief, the process ...
  • Worried about climate change? Meh.
    Climate alarmism pushes a blinding variety of scares at the general public; Polar bears going extinct, droughts of biblical proportions, massive Noah’s ark type flooding, glaciers melting, sea levels rising, sea levels dropping, the polar ice caps melting, your Granny’s knicker elast ...
  • The Nigger Word.
    There’s been a bit of a furore recently about a supposedly prestigious science journal running a paper that was peppered with the word nigger. The editor, of what can only be referred to as a rag now, even came up with a fatuous reply to the resultant criticism, which when stripped of the ...
  • Mullering the data.
    There is this new sort of creature who’s emerged in the climate debate in the last year or two. Unsurprisingly, they all seem to spring from the alarmist side, but they all have one of those comfortably recognisable patterns of behaviour that I quite like. I’ll freely admit I’v ...
  • Our secret weapon.
    There are three elements to be considered when formulating a strategy; the ultimate objective of the strategy, the resources you have available to achieve that objective and the way the resources are to be deployed to take and then hold that objective. Obviously, our objective is to destroy the ...

Journalists' Toolkit

  • Baby Steps in Data Journalism
    This is a Tumblr blog that I started in early April 2012: Baby Steps in Data Journalism Its purpose is to collect links and other useful information related to learning about data journalism. To go directly to something you might be searching for, try these links: How I installed Python (April 2 ...
  • The best video export options
    How do you choose the best settings for exporting your video, after you have edited it? I remember how confusing this was for me when I started working with Web video several years ago. With the slower computers we had back then, I would wait for what seemed like forever while exporting a small ...
  • Video Resources updated
    The new Video Resources page has been added to this site. This is a carefully curated page with links to good tutorials for video editing software, video shooting tips, and the like. It’s intended for beginners, particularly journalism students and journalism educators who are teaching vid ...
  • Flash Journalism updates
    I have been hard at work updating the Flash Journalism website. New tutorials for ActionScript 3.0 and for working on the Timeline in CS4 and CS5 have been added. The old pages from the original site (created to support the book I wrote about Flash journalism in 2004) are still online, and all t ...
  • New tutorial: Windows Live Movie Maker
    As an aid to a journalism training session I agreed to give, I created a short PowerPoint that is aimed at journalism students. Windows Live Movie Maker Tutorial Windows Live Movie Maker is quite different from its predecessor — Windows Movie Maker (not “live”). It is less vers ...

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • Creating Excellent Schools is not the Same as ...
    Republished from Diane Ravitch's blog: Charter schools that perform better by recruiting and retaining better students don’t exist in a vacuum: skimming the best and most profitable students affects other schools, though it is hard to detect in systems with few charters.  The systemic ef ...
  • Homelessness, Displacement, Evictions . . . Th ...
    There are a number of obvious parallels between housing needs in New Orleans after the 2005 hurricanes and housing needs in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake. In both disasters, large regions lost the majority of their affordable housing stock, resulting in massive spikes in homelessness and ...
  • Junebug Productions Welcomes Stephanie McKee a ...
    From our friends at Junebug Productions: The Board of Directors of Junebug Productions, Inc. is pleased to announce the appointment of Stephanie V. McKee to the position of Artistic Director, effective July 1, 2012.  Junebug Productions, founded by John O'Neal in 1980, is the organizati ...
  • Beasts of the Southern Wild, A Hollywood Film ...
    Earlier versions of this article originally were distributed via Agence France Presse, and in Louisiana Weekly. The Gulf Coast loses a football field of land every 45 minutes, and much of that loss happens in the bayous of Southern Louisiana, where roads disappear into canals, winding their way ...
  • Backlash Mounts as the Louisiana Supreme Court ...
    From a press release sent out today: Justice Bernette Joshua Johnson, who has served as an Associate Justice on the Louisiana Supreme Court for nearly two decades, is poised to assume the office of Chief Justice in February 1, 2013, upon the retirement of the current chief justice. She fol ...

Information Underground

  • Zionist Personalities We Should Know About • R ...
    That guy is worth nearly a billion dollars. Why does he have to play concerts for Babylon? Does anyone believe those theories about the real McCartney dying back in 1966 and being replaced by a large phallus?Statistics: Posted by Christopher Marlowe — Tue Jul 17, 2012 2:54 am
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Statistics: Posted by Ognir — Tue Jul 17, 2012 1:50 am
  • Law, Security, and Other Lies to Endslave Us • ...
    Anti-Christ Mendel Menachem Schneerson (and you thought lord sidious was hideous!) Rabbi Riskin: "Without the 'Noahide Laws' humanity would dissolve in a blast of nuclear explosions" Brooklyn Khazar and disciple of the dead "King Messiah" Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Rabbi ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    I wonder if Chuck "Mossad" Missler attended.Statistics: Posted by Timothy_Fitzpatrick — Tue Jul 17, 2012 12:59 am
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Not sure what to make of this one. Info about Chernobyl doesn't fit w/other info I've heard, but I just don't know. Do Nuclear Disasters Play into the Global Elite’s Agenda 21 ReWilding Scheme? http://occupycorporatism.com/nuclear-di ... ng-scheme/ (links and video here) Susanne Posel Occ ...

TVNZ

environment 360

  • Linking Twin Extinctions Of Species and Languages
    A recent study noted that most of the 6,900 languages spoken on Earth occur in regions of high biodiversity. These findings point to a strong correlation between biological and linguistic diversity, with languages closely connected to the habitats where they are found. BY VERLYN KLINKENBORG
  • Warmer Ocean Waters Lead to a Lobster Glut in ...
    Warmer Atlantic Ocean temperatures off the coast of Maine have caused the state’s bountiful supply of lobsters to shed their shells and come onto the market six weeks earlier than normal, creating a glut that has driven prices sharply down. The state’s 5,000 lobster fishermen are receiving less ...
  • Beetle's Rapid Evolution Helps Control Invasiv ...
    Scientists say that a species of beetle has rapidly altered its life cycle to more efficiently devour the invasive tamarisk tree in the southern United States. UCSB Tamarisk leaf beetle In a decade-long study, researchers from the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) found that ...
  • Cooling a Warming Planet: A Global Air Conditi ...
    The U.S. has long used more energy for air conditioning than all other nations combined. But as demand increases in the world’s warmer regions, global energy consumption for air conditioning is expected to continue to rise dramatically and could have a major impact on climate change. BY STAN COX
  • Aquaculture Output To Rise 33 Percent Over Nex ...
    The global aquaculture sector could produce 33 percent more fish for human consumption over the next decade, an increase in production that will help feed a growing world population even as fisheries are overexploited, a new UN report predicts. More than 79 million tons of farmed fish, crustacea ...

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backofthebook

  • McDonald’s: Some secrets should be kept
    By Mark Leiren-Young Did McDonald’s have to tell us what they put in their special sauce? Couldn’t they have just said, “May contain nuts, chlorine and anything else that may set off your allergies” and keep us guessing? Unless someone posted the recipe on Wikileaks, did they have to tell us abo ...
  • A Modest Opinion – Nathaniel Moher&#8217 ...
    By Nathaniel Moher Welcome to part three of Nathaniel Moher’s Guide to Fixing the World! As any good trilogy does, Nathaniel Moher’s Guide to Fixing the World will have six parts . . . three of which will be completely unreadable and will mostly be done as a money grab. (Well, if we’re being hon ...
  • Friendly Canadian input on the US election
    By David Taub Bancroft The sun is shining. The flowers are blooming. We are in a year that is divisible by four. I think we all know what that means. In a matter of months, our American friends will once again start hanging chads or whatever it is they do to hold a presidential election, [...]
  • Chip bandits and Nic Cage: Canada’s very ...
    It’s been a very good week for Canadian students on the internet. Or perhaps a very bad one. First, York University student Vanessa Hojda went viral after she accidentally attached a picture of actor Nicolas Cage to a job application, rather than her resumé. It wasn’t so much the fac ...
  • Toew’s Internet surveillance bill walks ...
    By Montreal Simon About a month ago I made this little photoshop, because I was sure that Vic Toews would try to use the Luka Magnotta case to peddle his internet snooping bill. For a Con zombie is a Con zombie, and there is nothing Toews wouldn’t do tostumble through our computers without ...

Daily Beast

  • This is Why the Stimulus Failed
    Bruce Bartlett looks at the composition of stimulus spending and is ultimately unsurprised that it did little for economic growth. The stimulus spent too little on actual consumption or investment:
  • No Space
    The Washington Post just published a long story by Scott Wilson about Barack Obama’s failure to bring peace between Israel and the Palestinians. It starts with the now famous exchange in July 2009 in which Malcolm Hoenlein, the powerful executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of ...
  • Wills, Kate and Harry give £1.3m
    Wills, Kate and Harry give £1.3m
  • A Hint for Romney
    There was a good impulse here:
  • "Hagit, you're dead."
    "Hagit, you're dead." -- Hate slogans spray-painted at the home of Peace Now Settlement Watch Director Hagit Ofran.

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • Serena equals Venus with 43rd WTA crown
    Serena Williams has spent most of her career matching — and often breaking — older sister Venus' records. After tying Venus for the most WTA Tour titles among active players, there's little left for her to equal. Except Olympic gold.
  • Irradiated Iitate to be divided into three rad ...
    The village of Iitate on Tuesday will be the fourth municipality in Fukushima Prefecture to have its nuclear evacuation zones rearranged by the central government. Iitate, whose residents were given a month to leave after the Fukushima No. 1 plant went into meltdown after the Great East Japan ...
  • Courts back workers' rock-solid right to strike
    "Sensei, Japan is such a safe country because there are no strikes. Right?" A student at the university where I teach blindsided me with this remark the other day. The vast majority of Japanese under 30 have never even witnessed industrial action and imagine a strike as something equivalent to ...
  • Youkilis refuses to rise to bait
    Chicago White Sox third baseman Kevin Youkilis refused to comment Sunday on the latest criticism from Boston Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine. Valentine held Youkilis responsible for the rift between the two.
  • Chindonya
    Dear Alice, Some years ago on a visit to Japan, in Osaka, we came across a wandering band dressed in full kimono and playing what sounded like Dixieland jazz on an odd assortment of Japanese and Western instruments. From what I could make out, they were promoting a business, but I never did le ...

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • Medicare’s 50th Anniversary Sets Important Con ...
    July 1 of this year marks the 50th anniversary of Medicare in Canada. On June 29, Nova Scotia’s Minister of Health and Wellness released for public input proposed new legislation to replace the outdated Health Services and Insurance Act. Are these two events related? Probably not, but I think th ...
  • The Death of Evidence or 2 + 2 = 5
    The scientific community is sad to report the death of evidence, which passed away June 18th, 2012, after an over six year battle with Harper government policies. Objective and honest, evidence was heavily involved in all aspects of Canadian prosperity and will be sorely missed by all Canadians, ...
  • Stuffing Solar City where the sun don’t shine?
    The Halifax Regional Municipality’s Solar City project has been widely heralded as visionary and pioneering, an inspiration not only to other municipalities in Nova Scotia, but across the country. The plan is to bring solar hot water to a 1,000 homes in the city, allowing homeowners to rep ...
  • 800,000 Years
    The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) held its 35th session recently in Geneva, on the northern shore of Lac Leman. Across the water from the UN quadrant where the IPCC’s decision-making body met lies Mont Blanc. At 4800 metres Mont Blanc is the highest peak in the Alps. Like near ...
  • Union Density and Unemployment
    A major part of Hudak and the right wing’s argument for “right to work” laws is that weaker unions will bring more jobs. In fact, despite some evidence of a shift of manufacturing investment and production to lower wage/anti union jurisdictions (as in the Caterpillar case) , th ...

ReDress

  • Nationalism versus capitalism in USA: guess wh ...
    Lawrence Davidson considers the essence of capitalism and how its corollary in the age of the free market - outsourcing of production to countries with cheap labour, no or weak trade unions and minimal regulation - is impoverishing Americans who nonetheless continue to believe that the system co ...
  • Storming the Bastille in Syria
    Henry Lowi calls on progressives with a conscience to declare their solidarity with the oppressed people of Syria, to make every effort "to reach out to the pro-democracy grassroots organizations" there and to "support and strengthen the hand of the pro-democracy and working class currents in th ...
  • Accusations of Jewish self-hatred and anti-Sem ...
    Richard Forer explains why so many Jews support Israel's blatant injustice towards the Palestinians, arguing that an honest self-examination by Israel's Jewish supporters of the premises behind their demonization of Israel's critics, and debunking the idealistic false image of Israel that they s ...
  • Two faces of Israel: honest terrorist and corr ...
    Uri Avnery views two former Israeli prime ministers, Yitzhak Shamir, the recently-deceased terrorist leader, and Ehud Olmert, architect of the 2006 Lebanon war and the 2008/09 Gaza massacre, noting that whereas Shamir, "the dead honest fanatic, has many followers" Olmert, "the living corrupt pra ...
  • Poisoning Arafat: Ariel Sharon and the Jewish ...
    Uri Avnery recalls Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's journey from national liberation fighter to peace warrior and argues that Arafat's quest for peace, which if successful would have posed a mortal danger to the Jewish settlements, is what led the Israelis to poison him.

Physics Today

  • Graphene offers clear window on liquids
    BBC: Until now, liquids have been difficult to view at the same resolution as solids using transmission electron microscopes (TEMs), which require liquids to be placed in some sort of container. Silicon nitride or silicon oxide capsules are traditionally used, but they don't provide a clear view ...
  • Rival teams shared in Nobel celebration
    Science: In 2011, Brian Schmidt, Adam Riess, and Saul Perlmutter were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae". The Nobel may not be shared among more than three people, and the three men wante ...
  • No title
    Talking Points Memo: The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is back online after a four-month long maintenance period. On Thursday, CERN announced that it had achieved the highest-energy level for proton collisions yet recorded in history: 8 trillion electron volts (TeV).
  • Wind energy growth tops renewable energy sector
    Earth Policy Institute: Renewable energy makes up only a small section of the energy market but since 2007 hydropower grew by 7 percent and wind power grew by 36 percent while coal declined slightly says a new report from the Earth Policy Institute. In fact in five US states more than 10 percent ...
  • Smaller accelerators continue the search for d ...
    Nature: In the wake of the null results from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, some physicists are turning from larger, more powerful particle accelerators to smaller, less expensive ones. At the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in Virginia, a continuous dense beam of electr ...

Revolutionary Politics

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  • The Charts That Show Why the U.S. Is ‘Screwed’
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Peakwater

  • SF Considering Ways To Curb Plastic Water Bottles
    “City officials are considering an ordinance that would require owners of new and renovated buildings with water fountains to install special bottle-filling taps. The law’s designed to encourage thirsty people to refill containers instead of reaching for another bottle of Evian or Aq ...
  • Michigan DNR to remove illegal carp from lake
    “The Michigan Department of Natural Resources plans to use electrofishing and nets to remove illegal carp from a southern Michigan lake and study other nearby lakes for the presence of the fish, officials announced Monday, The removal effort is planned this week at Marrs Lake in Lenawee Co ...
  • Laos Announces “Postponement” of Xayaburi Dam ...
    “On Friday, Laos’ Foreign Minister Thongloun Sisoulith announced that the Xayaburi Dam had been postponed, pending completion of further environmental studies. While initially promising news, today’s Vientiane Times confirms that the Lao government nevertheless intends to allow Ch. Karncha ...
  • LandBank inks $275M loan agreement with World Bank
      “Land Bank of the Philippines recently sealed a $275-million loan agreement with the World Bank for the initial implementation of the Metro Manila Wastewater Management  Project (MWMP). “The project aims to address wastewater collection and treatment practices in selected area ...
  • Population explosion: Pakistan hurtling toward ...
    “Pakistan is fast heading towards a water crisis, as water availability in the country continues to decline at a vary fast pace, official documents obtained by Business Recorder showed. “The per capita availability of water is currently at 1,011 cubic metres per capita, which is marg ...

D. Kucinich

  • New York Fed Aware of Libor Manipulation
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement after documents released by the New York Federal Reserve Bank, at the request of the Chairman of the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, revealed that the Fed knew that the London Interba ...
  • Kucinich Asks Ohio Secretary of State to Help ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today wrote to Ohio Secretary of State John Husted strongly encouraging the Secretary to “vote for democracy in the matter of whether or not the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections follows precedent in keeping polls open the final two weekends” before the Novemb ...
  • Kucinich Explains “LIBOR”
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released a video on YouTube explaining the “LIBOR scandal” and why it is important to everyone who participates in the economy. Kucinich explained in easily understandable language what the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) is, how it affects world ma ...
  • On 11th Anniversary of Department Of Peace Kuc ...
    On the 11th anniversary of initial introduction of H.R. 808, to create a Cabinet-level Department of Peace, Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today challenged our nation’s reliance on violence and encouraged all Americans to live a personal commitment to peace. See the video here. The full te ...
  • Kucinich Calls Health Care Debate Political Th ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today called the latest in the more than 30 votes so far in this Congress to repeal the Affordable Care Act as nothing more than political theater. See the video here. The full text of Congressman Kucinich’s remarks follow. “Before the Affordable Care Act was ...

Authentically Wired

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  • WHO ARE ARIZONA’S WATER WISEMEN
    … Rattle your cage … a perspective from outside in …         WHO ARE ARIZONA’S WATER WISEMEN …?     A brilliant sun pierces what moments earlier hosted a dim Arizona landscape of soaring mountains, towering Ponderosa pines, exquisite configurations of Saguaro c ...
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Popular Technology

  • The Truth about Richard Muller
    "I was never a skeptic" - Richard Muller, 2011 Richard Muller has never been a skeptic, at best he had a moment of intellectual honesty towards skeptics when he acknowledged Steve McIntyre's debunking of Mann's Hockey Stick, only to later dismiss this as irrelevant to the global warming debate ...
  • The Truth about Judith Curry
    Judith Curry is not a skeptic but a hurricane alarmist who had an alleged epiphany after Climategate and now seeks to be some sort of arbiter of scientific integrity. Her history of trust building includes accusing world leading hurricane expert, Dr. William Gray of "brain fossilization" and t ...
  • The Truth about Skeptical Science
    Skeptical Science is a climate alarmist website founded and run by a self-employed cartoonist, John Cook. It is moderated by zealots who ruthlessly censor any and all form of dissent from their alarmist position. This way they can pretend to win arguments, when in reality they have all been refu ...
  • Mastering the Firefox Search Bar
    As a veteran online searcher, data miner, researcher, and computer scientist, I have in the past shied away from using in-browser search bars... instead preferring to use the search tools available on individual sites. This is for practical and functional purposes, as: [1] in-site searches t ...
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    SourceWatch is a propaganda site funded by an extreme left-wing, anti-capitalist and anti-corporate organization, the Center for Media and Democracy. Just like the untrustworthy Wikipedia the content can be written and edited by ordinary web users. Users who all conveniently share an extreme lef ...

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • Indonesia revises moratorium map; makes contes ...
    Indonesia is making 'encouraging' progress on its push to reduce deforestation by improving governance over its forests and peatlands, but still needs to do more to enforce environmental laws, said the head of the country's Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+) task force ...
  • Can loggers be conservationists?
    Last year researchers took the first ever publicly-released video of an African golden cat (Profelis aurata) in a Gabon rainforest. This beautiful, but elusive, feline was filmed sitting docilely for the camera and chasing a bat. The least-known of Africa's wild cat species, the African golden c ...
  • The month in environmental news for April 2012
    Mongabay.com provides a quick review of forest-related news for April 2012.
  • Does the Tasmanian tiger exist? Is the saola e ...
    The use of remote camera traps, which photograph animals as they pass, has revolutionized research on endangered and cryptic species. The tool has even allowed scientists to document animals new to science or feared extinct. But as important as camera traps have become, they are still prohibitiv ...
  • New reptile discovered in world's strangest ar ...
    Few people have ever heard of the Socotra Archipelago even though, biologically-speaking, it is among the world's most wondrous set of islands. Over one third of Socotra's plants are found no-where else on Earth, i.e. endemic, while 90 percent of its reptiles are also endemic. Adding to its list ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • Niwa breaching its duties with figures - scept ...
    Climate research organisation Niwa breached its duties by misleading the public over climate warming, a group of global warming sceptics has told the High Court.New Zealand Climate Science Education Trust, a branch of the NZ Climate...
  • Global warming sceptics accuse Niwa of tempera ...
    A group of global warming sceptics has accused Niwa of deception over the issue and is calling on the High Court to invalidate its temperature data.At the High Court in Auckland today, The New Zealand Climate Science Education Trust,...
  • Nasa's seven minutes of Mars terror
    A giant space probe will plunge into the atmosphere of Mars at a speed of more than 21,000 km/h in a few weeks.For the next seven minutes, its onboard computer will issue electronic instructions to direct the craft through manoeuvres...
  • Solar blast heading for earth
    A solar storm was due to arrive Saturday morning and last through Sunday, slamming into Earth's magnetic field. Scientists said it will be a minor event, and they have notified power grid operators, airlines and other potentially...
  • Herald on Sunday Editorial: The future? You're ...
    Deck Hazen should be careful what he wishes for: it might come true. The American-born IT specialist, who has retired to Kerikeri, has invested in - and signed up to be a customer of - an Australian cryogenics facility.For a mere...

The Bovine

  • Why won’t they look at the evidence?
    David E. Gumpert, who lawyer Bill Marler likes to cast as “the pope of raw milk”, has posted a fascinating think piece on the seeming impossibility of convincing organizational opponents of raw milk of the benefits of said raw milk, … Continue reading →
  • Limiting evidence at the upcoming Vernon Hersc ...
    From David E. Gumpert, on the Complete Patient blog: “Prosecutors seeking to jail Vernon Hershberger for distributing his farm’s food privately to members of a food club betrayed their nervousness yesterday when they filed motions intended to limit the evidence … Continue readi ...
  • Did the ancient Africans milk cows?
    From Thomas H. Maugh II, in the Los Angeles Times: “Residues of milk fat on pottery indicate that Africans in what is now the Sahara desert were milking cows and processing the milk into cheese, yogurt and other products 7,000 years ago, European researchers reported … Continue readi ...
  • How the NY Times went too far…
    From Tom Philpott, on Mother Jones: “In a much-discussed feature that led the Sunday New York Times business section, Stephanie Strom reignites the long-simmering debate about whether the organic label has been essentially bought out and drained of meaning by gigantic corporations. She par ...
  • The very model of a post-modern raw milk dairy ...
    From David E. Gumpert on The Complete Patient blog: “Sally Fallon has long been the whipping girl of raw milk opponents, portrayed as uncaring of victims of illness from raw dairy and an advocate of crazy safety ideas, like the … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • Calpers Pension Plan Reports 1% Return; Stunni ...
    The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) manages pension and health benefits for more than 1.6 million California public employees, retirees, and their families. Its pension plan assumes 7.5% annual growth. For fiscal year ending 2012 CalPERS Reports Preliminary Performa ...
  • Still More on Credit-Worthiness of Bank Lendin ...
    In response to Reader Questions on "Credit-Worthiness": Did Banks Give Mortgages to Non-Creditworthy Borrowers? I received an email from reader David, who wanted to expand on point number 5 below from my post. This is what I stated, adding the words [banks thought]. The email from reader Da ...
  • Peugeot Has 51% Chance of Debt Default; Hollan ...
    The incredibly inept policies of French president Francois Hollande are back in the news. Hollande is following up on his proposal to not let companies fire workers, starting right now with French car maker Peugeot's Plan to Cut 8,000 Jobs, Close Plant An article in El Pais has better ...
  • Only 23% of US Companies Plan to Hire in Next ...
    According to the latest survey from the National Association for Business Economics (NABE) hiring over the next six months looks grim. A NABE Poll Shows Fewer U.S. Companies Planning to Hire Only 23 percent of the firms polled in June plan to add to staff in the next six months, the ...
  • ECB Advocates Forcing Senior Bondholders to Ta ...
    In a surprise but welcome move, the ECB Shifts View on Bond Losses. The European Central Bank, in a sharp turnaround, has advocated imposing losses on holders of senior bonds issued by the most severely damaged Spanish savings banks, though finance ministers have for now rejected the approac ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- July 16, ...
    Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
  • Mali, Al Qaeda, and the US Neo-Colonial Agenda
    Recent developments in Mali illustrate both the way in which the Unites States and its Western allies directly project military and political power, as well as the role of terrorism as a necessary pretext for imperialist, neo-colonial domination. Beginning with the establishment of AFRICOM (US A ...
  • Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
    Smokey Robinson- “Quiet Storm” It’s been over a half year now of Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol Music Pick. A lot of Saturday-night listening to an eclectic selection of music here at BFP. I hope you have enjoyed my selections (and the requests) so far. This weeks pick is al ...
  • Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Ma ...
    From Indignados to Occupy The Indignados movement was sparked in Spain on May 15, 2011. In part inspired by the Arab Spring, young Spaniards, who face a 46% unemployment rate, occupied the Puerta del Sol in Madrid for several weeks, protesting against the socio-political and economic system that ...

bloody crossroads

  • Is Obama a Fraud?
    The debt deal is yet another sign that hope and change has been a fiction from the start: Like many, I was extremely hopeful when Obama won in 2008.  And like many I’ve become totally disillusioned with the president and … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Stories
    Good politifact piece on how Social Security functions and its solvency How the state is revoking our civil liberties by imprisoning people, in some cases for up to 15 years, for recording police brutality with smart phones Economist Dean Baker … Continue reading →
  • The Tyranny of American Healthcare
    For those who read this on Splice, be sure to re-read the unedited version… Why are we trying to prop up a broken system?: Do you realize how badly you’re being screwed by the health insurance corporations?  Let me give … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Stories
    Politifact on how entitlements have lifted millions out of poverty Must read: scientists have recently concluded that a once in a tens of millions of years mass extinction is now underway, mainly in the ocean, because of global warming and … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Stories
    Politifact on how entitlements have lifted millions out of poverty Must read: scientists have recently concluded that a once in a tens of millions of years mass extinction is now underway, mainly in the ocean, because of global warming and … Continue reading →

gCaptain

  • USCG: Noble Drillship Grounding Cannot Be Conf ...
    Coast Guard personnel in Unalaska continue to investigate reports that the Noble Discoverer dragged anchor Saturday in Dutch Harbor and possibly grounded.  Photos from the scene show the drillship so [...]
  • MSC Flaminia Update: Blast Leaves Two Dead, Th ...
    Additional details are starting to trickle in Monday about the explosion on board the MSC Flaminia that occurred over the weekend in the mid-Atlantic, killing two and injuring three others. [...]
  • Security Team on U.S. Navy Supply Ship Fires O ...
    (Bloomberg) — A U.S. Navy vessel fired on a motor boat off the coast of Dubai today after it ignored warnings not to approach, an official said. One person was [...]
  • EU to Launch New Anti-Piracy Mission
    The European Union on Monday approved plans to launch a fresh civilian-led mission in the Horn of Africa to help fight piracy and instability in the region. The EUCAP Nester [...]
  • Saudi Aramco Awards Pair of Offshore Construct ...
    HOUSTON – (BUSINESS WIRE) - McDermott International, Inc. (NYSE: MDR) announced today that one of its subsidiaries has been awarded two projects for Saudi Aramco in the Arabian Gulf in the Karan, [...]

Press TV

  • Heavy blast hits Syrian capital
    A heavy explosion has rattled the Midan neighborhood in the Syrian capital, Damascus, with no immediate reports of casualties, according to Syrian media.
  • ‘US rockets target Afghan civilians’
    An analyst says Afghans who saw the body parts of their loved ones strewn around during US rocket attacks would never lay down their arms.
  • Iran raps Bahrain’s use of lethal teargas
    Iran’s deputy foreign minister for Arab and African Affairs has expressed concern over the use of ‘Western-supplied deadly teargas’ in the crackdown on anti-government protesters in Bahrain.
  • Israeli forces steal 1k goats in Lebanon
    Israeli military forces have stolen 1000 goats from Shebaa farms in southern Lebanon following their failure to abduct two shepherds.
  • ‘More P5+1 dialog rests on deputy talks’
    Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman says the date and venue of the next round of talks between Iran and six major world powers (P5+1) would be announced in case the two sides’ upcoming deputy-level meeting yields positive results.

SciDev.net

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

  • The United States is Experiencing the Longest ...
    The rate of unemployment in the United States has exceeded 8 percent since February 2009, making the past three years the longest stretch of high unemployment in this country since the Great Depression. CBO projects that the unemployment rate will remain above 8 percent until 2014. The share of ...
  • Models Used by the Military Services to Develo ...
    The military services—the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps—use modeling techniques to inform parts of their annual budget requests. As directed by the Congress in the 2011 National Defense Authorization Act, today’s CBO study provides information on the models used ...
  • Treatment of PTSD and Traumatic Brain Injury b ...
    More than 2 million service members have deployed in support of overseas contingency operations (OCO) in Iraq and Afghanistan since October 2001. Two combat-related conditions that affect some OCO veterans and that have generated widespread concern among policymakers are post-traumatic stress di ...
  • Presentation to the National Economists Club
    Yesterday I spoke to the National Economists Club on our recently released Budget and Economic Outlook. My remarks reiterated much of what I said in several of last week’s blog posts: CBO Releases the Budget and Economic Outlook: Fiscal Years 2012 to 2022 Fundamental Fiscal Challenge How ...
  • Federal Budget Deficit Totaled $349 Billion fo ...
    The federal government accumulated a budget deficit of $349 billion for the first four months of fiscal year 2012, CBO estimates in its latest Monthly Budget Review, $70 billion less than the shortfall recorded for the same period last year. Without shifts in the timing of certain payments, howe ...

Naked Scientists - News

  • Life's building blocks found in a ring around ...
    Complex carbon-based molecules, including many that are important for life on Earth, could have formed in the early solar system. That's according to a paper by Fred Ciesla and Scott Sandford in this ...
  • Pint sized rocket
    A rocket has been developed that could get a spaceprobe to the moon on just 100g of fuel Some tasks can only be done by a large satellite, but there are many others which can be done as well if not b...
  • Seeing Around the Corner
    Using a laser, a super fast camera and a clever algorithm, researchers at MIT have developed the ability to see, in 3D, around a corner. Writing in the journal Nature Communications, Andreas Velten a...
  • Drugs in sewage
    Drug use in populations, both legal and illegal, is important to know about for health and law and order reasons. Whilst it is relatively easy to keep tabs on the amount of legal drug use by asking ph...
  • Messages from Mercury
    The MESSENGER spacecraft completed one Earth year of orbiting Mercury this month, and two papers published in the journal Science highlight some of the surprising scientific results from our solar sys...

Nick Turse

  • TFI Daily News: Canada's new plastic $50, $100 ...
    TFI Daily News: Canada's new plastic $50, $100 bills melting in the heat: reports:...
  • benlowy:Zintan, Libya | July 14, 2012 Omar, ...
    benlowy: Zintan, Libya | July 14, 2012 Omar, 26, sits in the car he drove to the front lines during last year’s Libyan uprising. He refuses to fix his windshield “the sniper’s round went past my head… This car took care of me, so I can’t change it.” But more than anything the windshield is a c ...
  • kqedscience:The same view of Mount Everest, ...
    kqedscience: The same view of Mount Everest, 88 years apart, affords a striking contrast - and a much diminished glacier. David Breashears says: “Eighty-six years after Mallory took that photograph, I sat in the exact spot where he had snapped his iconic picture. Pulling out his photo, I was s ...
  • reuters:Two members of the Free Syrian Army ...
    reuters: Two members of the Free Syrian Army hold their weapons as they take defense positions in a house in El Moalimin neighborhood in Homs July 14, 2012. The Red Cross now views fighting in Syria as an internal armed conflict - a civil war in layman’s terms - crossing a threshold experts sa ...
  • "We have, in short, established a remarkably e ...
    “We have, in short, established a remarkably expansive set of drone-war rules for the global...

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